If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Money ain’t everything.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Fortune befriends the bold.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

You fail only if you stop writing.

I’m a can-do girl.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

People want to feel hopeful.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Dream and you shall become.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

My drive is other people’s success.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘