Top 135 Great People Quotes

I don’t want to make it a hard, fast rule, but it’s surprising how many ‘fun for the whole family’ acts are real scumbags. The people that confess they’re scumbags on stage are generally really great people. They’re more honest with the audience with who they are.

Well, the senators I’ve enjoyed working with the most would be Ted Kennedy and Kent Conrad, because they were both either chairman or ranking member of the committee I was chairman or ranking member of. And in both instances they were just great people to work with.

In many ways, leadership is about defining reality and inspiring hope, but if you have these great people around you and they know that what they do is going to be recognized, it can be incredibly powerful.

People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people.

Great people are attracted to great people and great visions.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

For me, one of the best things of having been a Doobie Brother is that the people involved always were great people.

I’m really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on.

The more comfortable you are, the more confident you are – in how you say your lines or how you perform in a certain scene – because you’re working with great people who will watch over you and won’t let you down.

A lot of great people come to Facebook. In our business, we’re about how do we help connect our companies to great people across all levels.

I’ve just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit me, and I’ve had great people to work with all these years.

Baltimore is a beautiful city. I started doing a lot of community organizing back in 1999 and met so many great people in neighborhoods all across the city. And that was an invaluable experience.

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

Really, I’ll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater – it’s a passion that I’m thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can’t imagine a better way of working than on a play.

The truth is, I think country music… there’s a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there’s just a lot of respect.

To be a great nation and a great people, you have to do great things.

I’d never really done comedy before ‘Community,’ so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors, writers, and actors, I feel like I’ve learned a lot.

My first filming job was one of the first episodes of ‘Black Mirror,’ before anyone knew what that was going to be. It was this mad project with some great people behind it – and now it’s ‘Black Mirror!’ It was sort of baptism by fire.

I just have a great life. I know great people. I’ve had great relationships – all different kinds of relationships. I am so lucky to be on the little golden path that led me to all this.

Get great people around you.

It’s just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.

I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.

I don’t know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there’s a lot of great people out there who people aren’t happy with.

I feel really honoured to be in the Walk of Fame in Birmingham with so many great people already like Ozzy Osbourne.

Only great people can make great products.

I’ve run into a lot of companies that invent positions for great people just so they don’t get away. But hiring people when you don’t have real work for them is insulting to them and hurtful to you.

And I’m working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.

With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.

I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people.

Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you’ll be able to get something cool on the other side.

I don’t think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

I have the best people around me. None of them have ever been on the radio. They’re all such great people, and I found that I was able to be a better person when I was doing the radio show. It kept me from being a radio person.

I’ve been privileged to coach a lot of great people, high-character guys, and I don’t think I’ve ever coached a better professional than Joel Anthony.

I love the individual sport stuff but the experiences I’ve had with some great people over 12 or 15 years are what makes is special. That individual thing: me versus the bowler is great but you get that team feeling as well and that’s why it suits me so well.

I’ve been very fortunate throughout my life with a number of opportunities, a number of great people that have helped me be in the position that I am today to be an NBA basketball player and to be living out my dream.

I’ve studied a lot of great people over the years – Pete Seeger, James Brown – and tried to incorporate elements that I’ve admired, though I can’t say I dance like James.

I’ve met so many remarkable people so far, coming up through stand-up all these years, who just aren’t alive anymore. Because they are dead. Some really great people who helped change my life and career, people like Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson.

I think great bosses hire great people. ‘A’ people hire ‘A’ people, but ‘B’ people hire ‘C’ people; they’re worried they might be shown up… they’re concerned that that person might make them look bad.

I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

You want to hire great people and give them the opportunity to fail. You need to let them figure things out as they go along. If they fail repeatedly, then you probably have to find a different person, but if you don’t let people have that opportunity to fail, they don’t get to learn and grow and try things.

I guess you could say my beauty routine is to do fun stuff with great people, laugh lots, work hard and be kind: because when I’m stimulated, invigorated and exhilarated, that’s when I feel beautiful.

I’m interested in little people. ‘The little, great people’ is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.

Orlando is a great city to raise a family because they have great schools and there are a lot of great people around here that I have met.

I’m proud of the fact I was able to surround myself with great people who did great things, and it resulted in the Bulls being a global brand and winning championships and a factor in the community.

Since I moved to Blackpool, I’ve met a lot of great people, and if it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t be as successful as I was because I’m settled off the pitch.

All you can dream for is opportunity, and I’ve been very fortunate to have that over the years. That’s all thanks to some great people.

Dad had great people investing in his life at a young age. His mother, his stepfather, his Boy Scout leader, his football coach. That’s where integrity is planted, like seeds that are harvested later.

When all Americans believe that the people we elect deserve to be in power, that their conduct in office is worthy of respect, and that they can be held accountable for their decisions, our politics will finally be worthy of our great people.

This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We’ve got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We’re going to change that in November.

The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don’t do a very good job.

If you want someone to show up and execute your script for you, seriously, there are a lot of great people out there. Don’t call me.

It’s one of the best parts of being on the ‘Real Housewives’ and why I love it: getting to talk to so many great people.

One of the things I love doing is putting great people together.

Take Damien Hirst out of contemporary art history, and there’s an incredible void. Great artists, like great people, have second acts.

I think that if you ask what’s made us successful, it’s because we’ve been fortunate enough to identify, in a number of cases, great people early. Then we throw all the resources behind them and are aligned with them.

We’re really critical with the process of who we hire. But when you put great people in position, that’s how you avoid any missteps.