Jay Green famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

  • If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

  • Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  • Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  • I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

  • If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

  • I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

  • The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.

  • In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.

  • In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.