“At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.”

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.

Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.

One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.

The more you like yourself, the better you do at everything you put your mind to.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.

Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every aspect.

Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.

All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

My goal is to drop 10 projects in 2013. All albums. I gotta do it. I know the 10 projects I want to drop.

You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it’s sharing your creativity with people. There’s no ambition to be famous. I couldn’t care less about that.

From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That’s what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

The best job a man could have would be a chef. They’d understand the long hours I work and the drive and ambition it takes to succeed.