Your network is your net worth. Invest in relationships the same way you invest in assets.
Successful people tend to be relentlessly resourceful. They do not give up when the first door closes.
If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to be uncomfortable every single day.
Do not listen to people who have never done what you are trying to do.
The temporary satisfaction of quitting is outweighed by the eternal suffering of mediocrity.
Find mentors who have done what you want to do. Not people who have only read about it.
The best investment I ever made was in myself. Everything else followed.
Perception creates reality. If you look like a success, you become one.
Every successful person I know has been through failure. The difference is they got up faster than they fell.
The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things unsuccessful people don't want to do.
Everyone has got the will to win. It's only those with the will to prepare that do win.
It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.
When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
Your level of success will rarely exceed your level of personal development.
When you're young and you see people who are successful, you think they have some special talent. What I've learned is that it's mostly persistence and hard work.
You need to believe in your own abilities and work harder than everyone else. That is the only way for someone who starts with nothing.
Zalando started as a Zappos clone. Now it's worth more than Zappos ever was. The copy became bigger than the original. That happens when execution matters more than originality.
Networking is not about collecting business cards. It is about being so interesting that people want to keep talking to you.
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world, but compound effort is the ninth.
After selling my company I felt lost for months. Nobody tells you that financial freedom can feel like an identity crisis.
We think mistakenly that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work instead of the quality of time we put in.
I came to America from India with five dollars. Now I run one of the largest companies in the world. That is the American Dream. It still works.
Etsy paid 1.63 billion dollars for a thrift store app built in London. Not bad for something that started as a social experiment.
I started Oracle with two thousand dollars. It is now worth four hundred billion. Not bad for a college dropout.
My first company filed for bankruptcy. My second company got sold for not enough. My third company changed transportation globally. Persistence matters.
The billion-dollar exit was an accident. We just wanted good tequila for our houses.
Seven world championships didn't happen because I'm talented. They happened because I outworked everyone.
I was on welfare at 22 and told everyone I'd be a millionaire. They laughed. I delivered.
Our first collection sold out on day one. Oprah called the Reva flat the next big thing. That was the moment I knew this was real.
Money is not the goal. Building something that earns genuine trust is the goal. Money follows trust, not the other way around.
Singapore told me to be a lawyer. Silicon Valley told me gaming hardware was boring. Razer's market cap told both of them the answer.
The champion is the one who makes fewer mistakes than the others.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
They don't want you to win. I'm telling you — every day is a war. You have to choose to be the winner.
I surround myself with winners. That is not an accident. That is a strategy.
I started with nothing and built something. That is not luck. That is discipline, repeated every single day for thirty years.
Boxing gave me everything — money, fame, a platform. But I would trade none of it. I earned it in the hardest way possible. In a ring. Alone.
I started with nothing but my hands and my faith. Everything after that was God's blessing and hard work.
Success is not built on success. It is built on failure, frustration, and sometimes catastrophe.
When you double a company's revenue and people still call it a failure, you have to ask: what were they really measuring?
I don't believe in luck but I believe that if you work hard, things fall in place.
If the definition of success should simply be measured by a balance sheet, then it is pretentious to claim otherwise. But life is not simply a balance sheet, right?