Jo Walton Quotes

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

...You can make a positive out of most any negative if you work at it hard enough.

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

Job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living.

If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.

Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.

Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.

Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don't become too predictable.

During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.

Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.

What mankind can dream research and technology can achieve

When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.

The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.

Do it. Try it. Fix it.

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

Other women who flew were women of independent means. But I had to do something with it.

I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.

You cannot lose what you never had.

I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.