Why should we be in such DESPERATE haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his COMPANIONS, perhaps it is because he hears a DIFFERENT DRUMMER.

To SUCCEED in business, to REACH the TOP, an INDIVIDUAL must know all it is POSSIBLE to know about that business.

If you succeed with your first dream, it HELPS. You know, people trust you, POSSIBLY, for the SECOND one. They give you a chance to PLAY out your second one.

One of the IRONIES of being a professional writer is that, if you are EVEN moderately successful, the very traits that let you SUCCEED as a writer are not much help when the TIME comes to head out as 'The Author.'

I want a PRESIDENT with a RECORD of public service, SOMEONE whose LIFE's work shows our children that we don't chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we FIGHT to give everyone a chance to succeed.

If you're not HOPEFUL and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the LONG hard look and just BELIEVE that if you're consistent, you will SUCCEED.

The PRESIDENT can't succeed WITHOUT Congress, and Congress can't succeed without the president. The IMAGE of one depends on the image of ANOTHER. It is not a zero-sum game.

To succeed in the tech industry, you START BUSINESSES, make money, and make smart investments. But to succeed in the tech COMMUNITY, you do and build awesome things, are GENEROUS with your time and efforts, and make a POINT of making space for strangers - without any expectation of payback.

I ADMIRE WRITERS who SUCCEED at what I CONSIDER the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might FIND.

My biggest MOTIVATION is knowing what it FEELS like to win MEDALS and thinking that I want that feeling again. It was incredible to succeed in Beijing and COME home to your whole COUNTRY behind you but, importantly, all your family and friends.

I LIKE to SAY that the one THING that all PEOPLE who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least TRIED.

Lots of COMPANIES don't SUCCEED over time. What do they fundamentally do WRONG? They usually MISS the future.

I THINK, TEAM FIRST. It allows me to SUCCEED, it allows my team to succeed.