William Wrigley, Jr. Quotes

Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.

William Wrigley, Jr.

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• Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Family
  • Career

• People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

  

  Washed Out
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• Custom is second nature.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nature
  • Second
  • Custom

• I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Hope

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Want
  • Science

• One must act in painting as in life, directly.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Act

• My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Weird

• Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • School
  • Home
  • Career

• Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

  

  Rain
  • Effort
  • Humility
  • Modesty

• I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Walk

• Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Men
  • Body
  • Down

• Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Wrong
  • Even

• Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.

  

  Garth Nix
  • You
  • Enough
  • Everything

• All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Work
  • Technique
  • Transition

• Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Great
  • Men
  • Knowledge

• After all my thinking and praying, my decision came down to the fact that I felt obligated to do everything I could to help.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Thinking
  • Help
  • Decision

• Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Great
  • Age

• I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Country
  • Family
  • Business

• The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Business
  • Career
  • Sad

• Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.

  

  William Wrigley, Jr.
  • Business
  • inspirational