Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

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.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

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.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

If you deserve it, go get it.

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

Value is what you get.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

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

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

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

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

Of course awards matter.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

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.

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

I think that success is having fun.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

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.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

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

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

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

He that can have patience can have what he will.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Success is the child of audacity.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

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.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.