Richard Kinder Quotes

I learned in America that Americans are into results. Americans don't care where you came from, what your family did, what school you graduated from. They care about if you can deliver the results. That's what makes America the country it is.

There is always room at the top.

In periods when everything was going really well I may have taken my foot off the pedal and got comfortable where I was at, not carrying on to the next level.

Juve have allowed me to show my worth, it has provided me with a challenge that has motivated me.

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.

I'm always looking for the next challenge.

The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

I'm always moving forward.

There's never been completion in my football career because I've always been striving for that next thing.

I have ideas in mind, things that I'm working toward. There have to be goals; there has to be a challenge. Just playing, in and of itself, is great. But there has to be some motivation to it.

With each dream accomplished, bigger ones are put in their place.

High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.

Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

There's a lot of guys that just get comfortable with their positions and rest on their laurels. I had to earn my way.

I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.