Great People Quotes

Great People Quote of the day

Good players create opportunities. The great players and the great people seize them

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

A great leader is one who surrounds himself with great people who then, collectively, innovate and implement with success. If he tries to do it all by himself, he is an egotist and likely to fail.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

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.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed.

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.

When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.

I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years.

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.

The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

I think as a company, if you can get two things right--having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff--then you can do pretty well.

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.

Success is mostly driven by how badly you want something and how well you partner with other great people. It has to do with how hungry you are.

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

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.

I really would not change anything. Have a passion for what you do, work hard, have great people with good personalities, enjoy the ride.

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God.

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

You're offering a great service. People are tuning in. So continue to find great people, continue to do what you're doing. And do it better than your rivals. I know that's easier said than done.

I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

I do feel that whatever happens, it's important to work with great people and do something great. That's how I feel.

Most busy people want to mentor someone great

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.

I think people need to know that there's great peace and joy in knowing the Lord - the Lord Jesus Christ - as your savior.