Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Lewis

There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write books because you need the income not because you think you have a good subject, you should just stop. There are sixty thousand books published in this country every year, and most of them are crap.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Jim Wolfgang

I think there always will be the need for the books and the lectures and the classrooms, and the classroom material. And that's where our secret comes in. This is supplemental to that.

Nick Hornby

I write the books I want to write, and readers will either respond or not respond.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I say, 'I write romance, women's fiction, chick lit.' I think it all fits very comfortably under the same umbrella. Basically, I write books for women - books about relationships: books that make you laugh and sometimes make you cry a little.

Julian Bond

I said, 'Read these books and you don't have to be here.

Ravi Singh

Such categories of books are not economically viable for mass production. So POD is a great solution which serves the purpose of both the niche readers as well as publishers.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

John F. Kennedy

Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.

John F. Kennedy

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

John F. Kennedy

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

John F. Kennedy

Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.

Joyce Carol Oates

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

Katherine Anne Porter

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

James Madison

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness.

Burt Reynolds

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Casey Neistat

I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.

Herman Melville

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

Henry David Thoreau

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Hugh Martin

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.

Gertrude Stein

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth ...

Gertrude Stein

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money ...

Gertrude Stein

When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Theodore Parker

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

Peter Drucker

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.

Marlon Wayans

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

Marlon Brando

Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

Nicolas Chamfort

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Mort Walker

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

John Wooden

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

John Wooden

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.