Terry Matthews famous quotes

And that's the secret. Timing, hard work and smart partners. Using that formula, I've either founded or funded over 80 companies, and none have gone bankrupt. Most have done very well.
-- Terry Matthews

#Smart #Hard Work #Secret

Our shipment of mowers was lost at sea and while we waited, winter descended and covered our green lawns with snow. That taught me a key lesson, the importance of timing. The shipping company lost the lawnmowers! By the time they showed up no one wanted them, as you can't cut grass when it's covered with snow.
-- Terry Matthews

#Mistake #Cutting #Winter

The single most important route of success is persistence - never, ever give up!
-- Terry Matthews

#Inspirational #Giving Up #Persistence

I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.
-- Terry Matthews

#Persistence #Thinking #Hands

Make a mark; don't be part of the living dead.
-- Terry Matthews

#Mark

I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people.
-- Terry Matthews

#Angel #People #Awful

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent. I'm afraid the chances of your getting a dowry are slim. You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.

God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

I'm not good at secrets, so don't tell me any.