“To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.”

“Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.”

“Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.”

“You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.”

“Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.”

“To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.”

“It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.”

“Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.”

“A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.”