Jim Quotes

It's a lot of fun finding a country that nobody knows about. The only thing better is finding a country everybody's bullish on and shorting it.

Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.

Paper money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton, by the way. One reason I'm long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke is out there running the printing presses as fast as he can.

Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Always do more than what you get paid for. It makes you a valuable person.

If you will change everything will change for you. Don’t wait for things to change. Change doesn’t start out there, change starts within....All change starts with you.

You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past

I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.

If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.

The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

I don't wear rubbers cause you can't catch it twice.

Care enough to make a difference. Care enough to turn somebody around. Care enough to change. Care enough to win.

You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself.

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles.

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

My kids are always awake. It's they're taking shifts. 'Alright, I'll annoy 'em from midnight to . Who wants to ?'

When it’s time, it’s time … and it’s time.

It's okay to send flowers, but don't let the flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best flowers can say is that you remembered. But your words tell the rest.

We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What's even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune.

I teach kids how to be rich by the time they are age 40, 35 if they are extra bright. Most kids think they are extra bright, so they go for 35.

Aim high! The future you see, is the person you will be

For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.

When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't try.

I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune. . . can you imagine what my life will look like?

Reasons come first. Answers come second

What you don't know will hurt you.

Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people.

Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.

No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.

No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you.

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become has indeed been left unto us.

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.