Jim Quotes

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Become the person who would attract the results you seek.

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

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.

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

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

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

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

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

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Take an Indian home to lunch.

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.

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.

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

If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something - books or bebop. Or you label them as hippies and you can sell tie-dyed T-shirts.

Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development.

I'd rather hug Magic Johnson after he rolled around in barbed wire.

Gratitude is what starts the receiving process.

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation.

Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.

The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.

I always tell the kids, You know what's great about going the extra mile? There's very little traffic.

I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

I hope that something better comes along.

Be fascinated instead of frustrated.

Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others.

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on

In America, everything you need to succeed is within reach.

I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses.

Take advice, but don't take orders.

When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets

Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.