“I don’t believe too much in luck. I believe in circumstances. I believe in work.”

Mistakes are normal and human. Make them small, accept them, correct them, and forget them.

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

When we decide to do something, we do it quickly.

The only way you finish with poverty is with jobs.

It’s important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.

Think of an athlete. He may be very good in his own house, but not as good as his neighbors. You have to go beyond your home. You have to go worldwide.

All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.

The combination of non-profit organizations like the foundations and profit businesses can work together in some areas.

I’ve always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others.

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets, any sound investment will eventually pay off.

All times are good times for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.

When you are convinced of what to do and what you need to do, it’s not hard to do that.

When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead. I don’t want to live thinking about how I’ll be remembered.

People need to feel very good about their achievements. They get pride in what they are doing.

I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.

I’ve never been a big believer in formal education.

I don’t think I’m better than other people, I think I’m different from other people, because I do different things.

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don’t stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.