-
“I must follow them. I am their leader.”
Source : Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1932). “Conflicts of Principle”
-
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
-
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
-
“We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.”
-
“I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.”
-
“I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.”
-
“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
-
“The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.”
-
“American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.”
-
“A good leader must be fair.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 
