Nobody wanders his or her way to a dream, and nobody achieves a dream by accident. Don't shortcut the process and risk cheating yourself out of your dream!
I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.
Success is never accidental.
Before I leave the earth, I'll have released a bunch of albums and a bunch of movies. I'm going to do it all. It's just that I have to strategically position myself on how I do it so that the world receives it.
Most accomplishments in life come more easily if you approach them strategically
The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends.
Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.
Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that's by going step by step.
Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.
The preparation is what allows the success to happen naturally.
I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
I always had an idea for what I wanted to do in the future and throughout my career. This wasn't, like, me figuring out what to do after Idol. I've always known the steps in what I had to do to get where I was.
My Internet presence was definitely bigger than the music. I'm so good at marketing, so once I knew I had them looking, I turned up with the music. I knew what I was doing - it was premeditated.
I had three goals and all of them were met.
