If you don't ask, you don't get.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.

I find that as an athlete, we don't get to speak our mind often or share our hearts. So I chose motivational speaking to help make a difference.

After my ski jumping career finished, I went back to school to study law, and now I travel between five to 20 times a year doing after-dinner speaking, motivational talks, appearances, openings, TV and radio shows.

Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.

People always need to hear good motivational speeches.