I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

I always wanted to have a headphone line but I feel like I’m going to do more than just headphones eventually, but we want to wake the world up right now with this.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Think and grow rich.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

‚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.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

No great thing is created suddenly.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

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

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.