Famous Quotes & Sayings

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.

I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

You begin by always expecting good things to happen.

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

Ted Turner

Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.

Wilson Greatbatch

I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make.

Wilson Greatbatch

We have never succeeded in slowing down our nuclear fusion reactors.

James Sinegal

We are a company that promotes 100% within the company.

Herbert V. Prochnow

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

William Henry Ashley

Many of their lodges remained as perfect as when occupied. They were made of poles two or three inches in diameter, set up in circular form, and covered with cedar bark.

William Henry Ashley

As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment.

William Henry Ashley

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.

William Henry Ashley

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.

William Henry Ashley

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.

William Henry Ashley

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.

William Henry Ashley

The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march.

William Henry Ashley

We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes.

We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.

I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.

The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.

William S. Paley

What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.

Allen Klein

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?

Cornelius Vanderbilt

I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.

Bill Veeck

After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.