Mahershala Ali Quotes

One doesn't win by chance. One doesn't lead a business to make a €1 billion or €500 million if he is a moron.

I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman.

I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

I am an entrepreneur and I wanted everyone to see the business side of me, and everyone will get to see that on 'The Celebrity Apprentice.'

I'm super inspired by Master P and early moguls. They were doing everything. I wanna do that, too. Twenty-six albums in one year. It's possible. Very possible.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

I want to lead a nation where anyone who aims high can achieve their dreams.

I would love to be a corporate leader.

I have always believed that most large fortunes are made by men...who tumbled into a lucky opportunity. Hard work and attention to business are necessary, but they rarely result in achieving a large fortune. Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich, he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration.

No matter what your dream is, you can make that dream a reality, ... If you dream about being a millionaire, you can be that. All you have to do is study and be smart.

I'm not guaranteeing that if you work hard you'll be able to duplicate my success. But in America, if you work hard, you just might. I'm a perfect example of that.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

I'm not just trying to be a good game manager. I'm trying to be great.

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

First of all, you have to born with a brain. I mean, you can't be a dummy and say I'm going to become a multi-billionaire some day. But, more than anything else, you have to love what you do, and beyond that, you can't ever give up.

A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating.

I am proof that the American dream still exists.