No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people who stuck with me.
The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people.
A great restaurant doesn’t distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
An out-and-out fast bowler is one of the great sights in cricket.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it’s just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I’ve done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she’s 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
A good captain is great only if he has a great team.
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.
If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you’ll need their help. And two, because it’s a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.
If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.
I look back on my career and my time as commissioner with great fondness.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
When I was in high school, there was ‘Superbad’ and ‘The Girl Next Door’ and ‘Wedding Crashers’ and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that’s smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like ‘Superbad.’ That movie was so good and so funny.
Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.
The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact.
Competition is great. And as long as it’s friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it’s cool.
The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.
I like cats a lot. I’ve always liked cats. They’re great company. When they eat, they always leave a little bit at the bottom of the bowl. A dog will polish the bowl, but a cat always leaves a little bit. It’s like an offering.
At Microsoft, we’re aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it’s seen as empowering.
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Time flies. Especially when you have a great time, when you’re winning and the team is playing great.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
To me, there’s no great chef without a great team.
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Enthusiasm… the sustaining power of all great action.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy… or they become legend.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
