Jo Jordan Quotes

The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm.

The easiest way to make money is create something of such value that everybody wants and go out and give and create value, the money comes automatically.

The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.

A lot of people wonder how a 21-year-old with average power (I finished 89th in driving distance) can be so successful. The answer is simple: I know how to score.

In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.

Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

You need to see things as they are, not worse than they are, than see them better than they are, and make them that way.

I'm definitely a lover, but I fight when I have to - for something or someone.

People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening.

It's not about the shoes, it's what you do in them.

Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Best way to sell something: don't sell anything. Earn the awareness, respect and trust of those who might buy.

There's no nobility in poverty.

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.

As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.

Like I always say, it's a team effort. A lot of behind the scenes work goes in when we're at home.

I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody's job and don't just settle.

If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working on it.

Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else

Since I've been in chiropractic, I've improved by leaps and bounds both mentally and physically.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.

You look like a handsome young man…although you might want to zip your fly. Mom! What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

I never thought a role model should be negative.

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.

To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done.

I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess!

A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.