Al Cash Quotes

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.

There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.

Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.

I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.

Help me, Jesus. I know what I am.

Some gal would giggle and I'd get red, and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.

I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I'm 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith.

He was removed from jail and placed in a place for the insensitive and insane.

I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she came over and put her arms around me and said, God's got his hands on you.

I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on.

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

Exchange ideas frequently.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer but I'm a song stylist.

After about three lessons [my] voice teacher said, "Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way. You're a song stylist. Always do it your way."

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.

One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio.

He went up to heaven, located his dog. Not only that, but he rejoined his arm.

Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

I love mixing up my genres.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

To whom much is given, much is required.

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do.

The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service.

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.

Dad trusted people based on their spirit and their handshake.

Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.

Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.

When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.

I came to believe in a power much higher than I

I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.