The two most important days in your life is the day you were born and the day you find out why.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’.

There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.

If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied, is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work, is to love what you do.

The man who moves a mountain, begins by carrying away small stones.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

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

If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

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

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.

A necessary skill for achieving that which you desire in your life is the ability to give the task at hand that one last go around.

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!

He makes me so glad that music is not nearly as lucrative as it once was.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

Every breach you look at occurred because somebody inside did something they weren't supposed to do. Sometimes there's an accomplice, but most of the time, it's innocent.

When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life.

A lot of people don't know I'm from the West Coast. My swag is different. Me being from Young Money, affiliated with them, some people think I'm from down South. They think maybe I'm from New Orleans like them. It's just good to show people and build outside of Young Money, build my brand outside of that.

An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign.

I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.

As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

Liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle.

Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.

Nobody could emerge from a childhood at MGM unscathed.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

All musicians are potential band leaders.