Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

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

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

I built a company at the same time I built a career.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

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

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

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

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

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.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn’t in place.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

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

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

The only way round is through.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

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

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.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.