Richard M. DeVos Quotes

I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

Richard M. DeVos

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• It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Find
  • Everyday

• It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Help
  • Parents
  • First

• Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50 between the men and the women - the man's 50 percent share was to sit in the woods with a sharp stick, waiting for something to hunt to wander by, and the woman's 50 percent was to do everything else.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.

  

  Frederick M. Vinson

• I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • People

• My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

  

  Bill Rodgers
  • Distance

• I was real skinny in high school. I was real fast and explosive. I just didn't really have a good nutrition plan; I didn't understand how important it was to be healthy. I was eating hot fries, potato chips in the morning, Capri Sun. That was like my breakfast. That changed when I got to college - I put on 20 pounds of muscle.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Real

• When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

  

  Eric Dickerson
  • Tired

• All of these attacks on Secretary Clinton, at the end of the day, are character attacks.

  

  David Brock
  • Character

• The '60s were a time of great change in American music.

  

  Alexandra Patsavas
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• When I'm not shooting, I'm a leggings and boots girl. I like cute and casual - for me, it's all about feeling good and being comfortable.

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Feeling

• The initials BP used to stand for British Petroleum, but like Kentucky Fried Chicken, they changed their name to improve their image. Apparently, 'Petroleum,' like the word 'Fried,' connoted a company too oily for American tastes.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • American

• You can still do the Big Lie in Miami and get away with it. This is a town where the basic institutions have collapsed.

  

  Joe Garcia

• From a distance, the American political system is a remarkable success. We have accomplished the peaceful transfer of power for more than two hundred years, and that's unmatched by any civilization in human history. Up close, our political system still has all the ugliness and bad actors that you might suspect.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • Up
  • Power
  • American

• No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

  

  James Fallows
  • History
  • Present
  • Choices

• I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being.

  

  Katori Hall
  • People

• After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the girlfriend of some funny man.

  

  Linda Kozlowski
  • Funny
  • Girlfriend

• Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Nature
  • Happiness
  • Beauty

• We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.'

  

  Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
  • Game
  • Play
  • Talent

• But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim. And it is important, in this seat, to make sure that you're making your best judgments based on data, intelligence, the information that's coming from your commanders and folks on the ground and you're not being swayed by politics.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Important
  • Information
  • Data

• I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

  

  Richard M. DeVos
  • Thinking
  • Positive
  • Leadership