Jim Quotes

You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.

I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft shoe routine. Sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.

The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.

All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.

The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us.

Take what you got and fly with it.

Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.

My basic advise is don't lose money

Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill.

The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

There is no such thing as a paper loss. A paper loss is a very real loss.

The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin.

Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.

God doesn't want his people to go second-class.

I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.

The faster some talents work, the more risk plays into the equation and then the opportunities for injury increases.

What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence.

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

Take an Indian home to lunch.

I loved the game. We played because we loved it.

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.

When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?

I don't know if I'm the husky guy, but I'm the sexy guy who's a good kisser .

I have more pictures of my children than my father ever looked at me.

Have you seen the bologna that has the olives in it? Who's that for? 'I like my bologna like a martini. With an olive.' 'I'll have the bologna sandwich - dirty.'

For the record, I hate skiing... and if you get killed doing it, GOOD.

Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel.

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

That's an interesting accent you got there. Are you from stroke-victim?

Faith is all that dreamers need to see into the future.

I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.

Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.

Become the person who would attract the results you seek.

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.

When our bed is made, it's covered in 40 pillows-like we're stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.

Some people are born into wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a family is a priceless membership that we pay nothing for but love.

Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.

America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.