Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Branson

Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business.

Richard Branson

Global warming is another big area that we need to get on top of. [And] diseases in Africa, which we're also working on and seeing if we can make a difference on. And there are lots of issues that governments seem to be blind about.

Richard Branson

The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances.

Richard Branson

Happiness doesn't come from making a fortune and owning lots of possessions. 'Stuff' doesn't bring happiness. Family, friends, good health and the satisfaction that comes from making a positive difference are what really matter.

Richard Branson

What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (...) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.

Richard Branson

Of course an individual can make a huge difference but it is when those individuals come together with like-minded souls that they can change the world for ever and importantly for the better.

Thucydides

But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.

Ruth Benedict

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

Ruth Benedict

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

Ross Perot

It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.

Ron Moody

Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

Rush Limbaugh

They [leftists] want to eliminate the concept of winners and losers. They want to wipe out the fact that there are any differences, particularly outcome differences, from one person to another. The things that they seek are not possible. The things that they seek are rooted in self-loathing, misery, unhappiness, crankiness, whatever.

Rush Limbaugh

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.

Rush Limbaugh

What's the difference between a liberal and a conservative? A liberal will interpret the constitution, a conservative will quote it!

Thomas Merton

Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.

Tony Dungy

When things get difficult it can be easy to complain. How you respond makes all the difference

Tony Dungy

If you want to make a difference in the lives of the people you lead, you must be willing to walk alongside them, to lift and encourage them, to share moments of understanding with them, and to spend time with them, not just shout down at them from on high.

Tom Waits

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

Steven Erikson

I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.

Steve Martin

After one of my plays came out, I had mixed reviews, some bad and some good. One day, it dawned on me. I thought, 'I wrote a play and he wrote a review, and that's the difference between him and me.'

Stephen Harper

Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.

Ronald Reagan

The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.

Ronald Reagan

I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

S. Truett Cathy

The difference between success and failure is often about 5% more effort.

S. Truett Cathy

You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.

Roy H. Williams

The value of an item—in the mind of a consumer—is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.

Ron Perlman

None of us are any better than anyone else and none of us are any worse than anyone else, and we're all equal and whatever we can do to celebrate our commonality rather than our differences, which is what religion does, to me... religion just compartmentalizes people and makes everybody into a box.

Roger Zelazny

I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.

Susan Sarandon

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

Sunny Murray

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

Suge Knight

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

Studs Terkel

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

Stephen Moyer

There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard.