Bob Dylan

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.

I thought I’d be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris. It was just inconceivable to me I couldn’t win it all.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

I measure success by how many people love me.

My whole life is about winning. I don’t lose often. I almost never lose.

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

To succeed in life, you need to things: ignorance and confidence.

I don’t think people get to be successful unless they have very strong egos.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

If I had to select one quality and one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick persistence I and determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, “Here comes number seventy one”.

The recipe of success is to study while others are sleeping, work while others are loafing, prepare while others are playing, and dream while others are wishing.

One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That’s not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.