I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it.

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

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

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.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

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.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

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

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

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.

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

I like pushing boundaries.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

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.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Some day I shall be President.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.