If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

What one has to do usually can be done.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

I just want to do well with the national team.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.