If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased.
The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit.
Young people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to.
A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.
Impossible is just an opinion.
There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.
Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.
Earning a lot of money is not the key to prosperity. How you handle it is.
You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.
We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes - while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes
The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance.
We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast
Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five
It doesn’t matter how strong or capable you are; if you don’t have a big heart, you will not succeed.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues
You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.
Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.
We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.
Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.
Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.
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