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

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

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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.

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.

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.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

In the case of Pakistan, the CIA actually used a fake vaccination campaign to try to locate Osama bin Laden, so now vaccination is associated with espionage.

My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.

As a single woman, I reap the benefits of being Stifler's mom.

Luckily, I have a fast metabolism.

There's so much more to me than swimming. I like to go and have fun, like to go dancing, hang out with my friends.

It isn't always a change of scenery needed to make life better. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes.

A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.

The music industry used to be able to control a single dance on the very smallest level of when people are supposed to hear it, and when they're supposed to start liking it, and when they're supposed to start buying it. And that's trashed, you know, that big machine that takes control and works albums for a long period.

In a movie, that's the only time when you're allowed these kind of fantasies to be lived. Being able to look so cool and be able to fight five bad guys and take them down. When can you do that?

What made al-Awlaki so influential is that, unlike a number of leaders of al Qaeda such as Osama bin Laden, he was a cleric, so he could present himself as a leading religious figure. Second, because al-Awlaki had spent much of his adult life in the States, he communicated with his followers in colloquial, accessible American English.

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

Give me something to do and you will make me happy.

It's a myth that generally Asians are mostly vegetarians. The Japanese are the kings of red meat, but it's expensive. The Chinese and Vietnamese love their pork. Many Indians, especially the Muslims, can't live without their lamb.

We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.