My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

I love being in the United States Senate.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

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

We don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‚hit the bottom‘ so the market could – I quote – ‚run its course.‘

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

A President cannot always be popular.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

My drive is other people’s success.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

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.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

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!

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

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

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

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.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Dream and you shall become.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.