Top 135 Great People Quotes

If I didn’t live in London, I would live in Glasgow. I love the colour of the brick and the black ironwork. I think it’s got such atmosphere and is extraordinary. I met great people there.
Viv Albertine
It still hasn’t sunk in that I’m going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I’m working with some great people.
Richard Fleeshman
I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I’d like to see them again. And I’d love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.
Dave Eggers
Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We’ll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I’m very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.
Steve Ballmer
But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
Patricia Clarkson
It has been a privilege to meet and work with so many great people and, from the workshop to the joy rides, to be allowed to experience so many fabulous cars and amazing locations.
Edd China
I have been traveling to every corner of the great stat

I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I’ve met some great people and we’ve had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.
Adam Hasner
I’ve gotten to know a lot of great people here in all the different sports. It’s fun. It’s fun to get involved where you live. And this is where I live. I’m a registered voter here. I have my Wisconsin driver’s license.
Aaron Rodgers
I’ve been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so many great blues and soul artists that I completely revere. So it’s strange for me, actually, to hear somebody say, ‘Oh, I was deeply influenced by your music.’
Paul Rodgers
We were building a – what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing – we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before.
Jeffrey Skilling
It’s been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I’ve been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I’ve done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.
Lakeith Stanfield
There definitely comes a time where a fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good, and the Conservative Party has got some great people coming up – the Theresa Mays, and the George Osbornes, and the Boris Johnsons.
David Cameron
I’ve lived a lot since I was 16, so I’ve got more things to write about. I’ve started playing around the world and met some great people along the way who’ve taught me lots of things.
Gin Wigmore
I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors.
Connie Chung
I always start from scratch with a character – they’re never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I’m a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
Amanda Burton
When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you’ve done and all these great people that you’ve worked with.
Brandy Norwood
I surround myself with great people. I listen to what they have to say. But at the end of the day, I rely on my gut.
Shari Redstone
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
I actually kind of prefer working with an ensemble. It’s just cool to be surrounded by such great people.
Cobie Smulders
I’m playing great music with great people and so there’s no reason to stop.
Graham Russell
My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
Laura Wasser
Hendrick Motorsports overall has a lot of great people and that gives you confidence that you can have a good season.
Kyle Larson
I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that’s pretty much everywhere in everyone’s life.
Tina Yothers
I have friends who vote Tory, and I’m appalled, but that’s not to say they’re not great people in so many other ways.
Jo Brand
T.J. Miller and Rob Corddry and Casey Wilson, they’re just great people.
Jason Nash
Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.
Lasse Hallstrom
I don’t have any bad vibes with LSU. I learned so much there. I experienced so much there. I had so much fun. I met great people.
Tyrann Mathieu
Whatever appreciation I’ve got despite the limited work I have done has been great. People have been receptive, and I think it’s a privilege to have earned this respect.
Fawad Khan
SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.
Jocko Willink
I’m interested in working with great people and exploring great themes in different mediums.
O. T. Fagbenle
If I’m going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven’t played before, with great people. It had better be fun.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill
We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we’ve added some extras that people aren’t used to finding on Southwest.
David Neeleman
Everybody wants to be Doug Stanhope; everybody wants to be Bill Hicks – and those are great people to aim for, but they had the fundamentals down. They knew how to be funny.
Chris Cubas
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
James Weldon Johnson
I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
I’ve always felt like the Forrest Gump of the music business. I’ve been fortunate to work with a lot of great people.
Michael McDonald
I don't buy this thing that our industry is responsible

I don’t buy this thing that our industry is responsible for all the ills of the world. We have great people at JPMorgan Chase. We operate with a lot of rigor. Our clients are happy with us.
Jamie Dimon
The Bulls are first class in every way: great people, organization, culture, and a great place to play basketball.
Kyle Korver
The great people I’ve met always have time for the niceties.
Mercedes McCambridge
I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.
Taylor Swift
Kristen Bell is one of my best friends. I’ve had the pleasure of working with some really great people, and Kristen is just a beautiful, talented young lady.
Chris Lowell
I’ve been very fortunate to work for great people – so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me.
Stephanie Cutter
Luckily enough I’ve got great people around me to keep me humble and grounded.
Jadon Sancho
I took a big risk to come to Hull, I have to be honest. But I loved it there, I really did. Great club and great people.
Marco Silva
Our public services and the great people who work in them are improving lives.
Liz Truss
While GeoCities isn’t cool, it isn’t a bad thing. It did a great thing – enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.
Evan Williams
I’ve learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it’s not complemented by great people, it won’t go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.
John W. Thompson
You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you’re not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they’ll figure out a way to make a buck.
Kenneth Langone
Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I’d put myself in the latter category. But I’d never call myself a normal designer of anything.
Steve Wozniak
My upbringing in Birmingham gave me a sense of reality. I could not pick another city I would rather have grown up in. Growing up around really good, solid, godly people, it helped me to find those kind of great people in L.A., too, which can be hard for some people.
Jordan Fisher
But I don’t just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.
Brad Bird
I’ve grown so much as an individual, I’ve come across so many great people, great organizations, heard so many great stories, inspiring stories.
Jason Collins
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
Doris Lessing
Hendrick Motorsports has great, great people there and I’m very lucky to be a part of that team and surrounded by amazing people.
Kyle Larson
Its challenging getting people to pay the right money to eat really good food and finding great people to work for you.
Rick Stein
Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
Ozwald Boateng