Michael Jordan

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.

For all the hard times and tough challenges I faced during different periods of my life, I think I was lucky or blessed or both. When things looked bleak, a good guide would appear to set me straight. Someone once asked me about the villains who got in my way, the bad guys who wanted to trip me up or take me out. I don’t remember any. Maybe it’s my nature to remember the good and forget the bad, or maybe it’s my destiny to lock onto the righteous for help.

You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Sometimes if you’re lucky someone comes into your life who’ll take up a place in your heart no one else can fill.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

It’s always good to be underestimated.

My dream was to make $1,000 a week, have a Cadillac convertible and an apartment on Ocean Park where I would’ve thought that would be nirvana.

The more people tell you it’s not possible, that it can’t be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. Treat the word ‘impossible’ as nothing more than motivation.

I believe it’s important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

Problems are often opportunities coming at us in packaging that isn’t what we expect or want.- Donald J. Trump