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My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

My first six years in the business were hopeless. There are a lot of times when you sit and you say "Why am I doing this? I'll never make it. It's just not going to happen. I should go out and get a real job, and try to survive.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.

My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing. The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me. I have fun running all the Virgin businesses-so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.

My plan, when I walked out on to the field on Friday morning, was to just enjoy myself because when I'm smiling and having fun I generally bowl my best.

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

My success has allowed me to strike out with a higher class of women.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

My success is not who I am.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research.

Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Never miss a moment to encourage someone you work with.

Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

Never start a business just to 'make money'. Start a business to make a difference.

Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career.

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small, you don't know where it can lead.

Never under estimate the Power of the Mind. Persist in creating new thoughts to prevent falling back into negative patterns. It is an ongoing struggle and you have to commit to winning if you are to succeed.

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

Ninety-eight percent of success is in the head and the heart.

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.