Good Quotes

"One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government"

"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got"

"And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

"The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

"Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

"I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford"

Dave Barry, Author

"Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided"

Casey Stengel, Athlete

"No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

"The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice"

Jim Morrison, Musician

"I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"Good and bad men are less than they seem"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied"

Alfred Nobel, Scientist

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