Archived Quotes

I want to design jewelry for girls and guys...

I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design,

probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings,

I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too.

Duty,

honor,

country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate

what you ought to be,

what you can be,

what you will be.

All that I am,

or ever hope to be,

I owe to my mother.

To fear love is to fear life,

and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Fix your feet.

I gotta stay real to myself,

that’s the code.

Never invest in a business you cannot understand.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.

Capital is only the fruit of labor,

and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

Labor is the superior of capital,

and deserves much the higher consideration.

I do believe that God

blessed me in life with

a wonderful family,

a successful career,

and a loving marriage,

and remain thankful

for that blessing.

I’ve learned that mistakes

can often be as good a teacher as success.

In the first place,

God made idiots.

That was for practice.

Then he made school boards.

If you’re competitor focused,

you have to wait until

there is a competitor doing something.

Being customer focused allows you to

be more pioneering.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things

you cannot learn any other way.

Mystery creates wonder,

and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

Confidence is contagious;

so is lack of confidence.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results.

More seats were allocated for blacks,

but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites.

At least I had made my men realize

that something could be accomplished by speaking out,

and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

There has never yet been a man in our history,

who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

I’m not a fan of the status quo.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon

realize that space is being created in your life

for something new to emerge.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation,

and, on the other, to morals.

The game of thought is,

on the appearance of one of these two sides,

to find the other: given the upper,

to find the under side.