Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.

When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.

If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.

In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gateBuilt in Jerusalem's wall.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.

Guns know no policy except destruction.

I wish I could make the statement that 'the odds were against me but you never quit', It was not true. I wanted to give up.

I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you.

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.