Kirk Kerkorian famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.
-- Kirk Kerkorian

#Men #Would Be #Rich
You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.
-- Kirk Kerkorian

#Paper #Herds #Sheets
I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.
-- Kirk Kerkorian

#Happiness #Money #Thinking
I'm far from being reclusive. I have thirty or forty year friendships that I prefer to meeting new people. I go to an occasional party, but just because I don't go to a lot of events, and I'm not out in public all the time doesn't mean I'm anti-social or a recluse.
-- Kirk Kerkorian

#Friendship #Party #Mean
We had the same doomsday people when we were building the MGM Grand, same people, same doomsday. You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.
-- Kirk Kerkorian

#Encouragement #People #Building
When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited .
-- Kirk Kerkorian

#Ambition #Men #Years
I do stay busy. I like new challenges.
-- Kirk Kerkorian

#Challenges #Busy

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds
I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.
Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.
How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?

Kirk Kerkorian famous quotes

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