Action Quotes

"I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business."

"My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget."

"I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass."

"I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business."

"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night."

"If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!"

"I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit."

"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."

"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality."

"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."

"No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best."

"One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can."

"Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do."

"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."

"He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us."

"You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can."

"The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

"We do not look in our great cities for our best morality."