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.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

I’m a can-do girl.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

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.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

If you deserve it, go get it.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Giving up cannot be an option.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.