If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

Economy’s got to get moving, we’ve got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Success has always been a great liar.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

Well begun is half done.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

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

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Well done is better than well said.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

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.