Winston Churchill

When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

It was just inconceivable to me I couldn’t win it all.

I’ve become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Losing is tough.

Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!

[As a child] I want to earn a thousand dollars a week, have an apartment on Ocean Parkway, and drive a Cadillac convertible.

It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money and that you’ve employed a lot of people.

I don’t cheat to win, I’d rather lose.

Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.

If you want to double your success rate, you need to double your failure rate.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people-I categorize them as life’s losers-who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn’t be fighting me, they’d be doing something constructive themselves.

I don’t think people get to be successful without ambition.