My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something new.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

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

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Success is not what you have, but who you are.

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most people cant.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

What is not started will never get finished

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake- you can’t learn anything from being perfect.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Theres the caveman in us. The caveman in you says I want direct contact. I dont want a picture. The caveman in our body says once in a while we have to go outside. We have to meet real people talk to real people and do real things.

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.

Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.

It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

I will encourage my kids in everything that life has to offer.

People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.

You do not mess with the special investigators.

The beauty of making theater is that you have to go and do it the next day. Making a show nightly is a really difficult skill. It's something every theater actor and every theater maker is challenged with.

I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

Sunglasses are like eyeshadow, they make everything look younger and prettier.

Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.

We don't believe that winning elections and winning any amount of votes will win freedom in Ireland. At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of the IRA which will bring freedom.

Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.