Jim Quotes

Stand guard at the door of your mind.

When someone becomes a millionaire, the least important thing is what they have. The most important thing is what they have become.

For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change.

Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons

A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.

None of us is smarter than all of us.

In order to achieve goals you have not achieved before you have to become someone you haven't been before.

We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.

People let little things cheat them out of big opportunities

Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.

The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search.

If someone hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire, or you won't get to keep the money.

Success is something you attract by the person you become. If you want to have more, you must become more.

Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve them.

Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.

Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.

Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.

Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.

Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

The book you don't read won't help.

Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.

Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom.

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

I just paint to fulfill an urge. When I don't have the urge, I just don't paint. This is not some stupid contest. But if it is, I feel like the winner that came in last.

After the horrific attacks of September 11th, it was evident that our Government needed to be transformed to meet the new challenges of this dangerous world.

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

I am committed to protecting our country against the threat of terrorism.

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.

After the last two years of springtime gas price spikes, nearly everyone in Southeast Wisconsin understands that something is wrong with our gasoline regulation and supply system.

Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of them have been convicted.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it.

If I don't have a deadline, I could fuss around with stuff for forever.

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.

I'm a Frisbeetarian. We worship frisbees. We believe when you die your soul goes up on the roof and you can't get it down.

Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.

Todd Rundgren is a genius, and I don't use that word a lot.

In the end, life lived to its fullest is its own Ultimate Gift.

Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life's problems.

Control what you can, acknowledge what you cannot.

You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything... I've lost everything three or four times. A perfect place to start.

You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything.

'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fall in love instantly and will battle any obstacle to be with that girl.

I just think that the independent voters are going to take their time and look at both candidates.

I really do try hard to be a good teammate. I can't run very fast, but I try to always run hard. I may strike out a lot, but I try to walk to set up the guys who are hitting after me.

Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.

There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.

What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.