All Quotes

Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
‐‐ Felix Dennis

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
‐‐ Hyman Rickover

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.
‐‐ Roddy Doyle

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.
‐‐ Brian Schweitzer

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.
‐‐ Sonya Levien

Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.
‐‐ Harvey Mackay

Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.
‐‐ Tim Walberg

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet.
‐‐ Brad D. Smith

Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

Good is not good when better is expected.
‐‐ Vin Scully

Good is often the enemy of best.
‐‐ Edwin Louis Cole

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
‐‐ Carlos Ghosn

Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.
‐‐ Marc Ribot

Good is the enemy of great.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

Good jobs look a lot like kids playing and adults working.
‐‐ Mike Rowe

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right.
‐‐ Steven Wright

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.
‐‐ John Pomfret

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
‐‐ Jim Horning

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.
‐‐ Christian Slater

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
‐‐ Rita Mae Brown

Good keepers sniff out attacks whether with the feet or a throw out.
‐‐ Tim Howard

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again.
‐‐ Delia Smith

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
‐‐ Charles Macklin

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

Good leaders must first become good servants.
‐‐ Robert K. Greenleaf

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
‐‐ Michael Porter

Good leaders need to be able to connect to all of those around them. This is especially true at Whole Foods, where we have a very team-oriented culture.
‐‐ John Mackey

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
‐‐ John D. Rockefeller

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.
‐‐ Tony Fernandes

Good legislation should bring clarity and not confusion.
‐‐ Bill Haslam

Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience hasn't convinced you of this, there's research that will.
‐‐ Martha Beck

Good-looking people are always looking for other good-looking people.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
‐‐ Patrick Swayze

Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the life you've led.
‐‐ Diana Quick

Good looks only take you so far.
‐‐ Angie Everhart

Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.
‐‐ Rachel Sklar

'Good Luck Charlie' is different from all the other Disney Channel shows because it's so relatable. Everything that happens on the show can happen to you and your family.
‐‐ Bradley Steven Perry

Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!
‐‐ Patrick Duffy

Good luck has its storms.
‐‐ George Lucas

Good luck is a residue of preparation.
‐‐ Jack Youngblood

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell

Good luck needs no explanation.
‐‐ Shirley Temple

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
‐‐ John D. Rockefeller

Good management has helped me find much of the success I've got.
‐‐ Sarah Vaughan