“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”

“Success can't be forced.”

“The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.”

“I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.”

“Applause waits on success.”

“A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.”

“True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”

“In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”

“The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.”

“I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.”

“Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.”

“Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.”

“My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.”

“The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.”

“Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.”

“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”

“I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.”

“Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.”

“We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.”

“It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.”