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 say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

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.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

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

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

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

I am results-oriented.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

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

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.

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

People do dismiss ambient music, don’t they? They call it ‚easy listening,‘ as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

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

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!