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

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

There is no substitute for victory.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

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.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

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.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

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

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.