Don Peppers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

  • When you get into this business you have to grow up quickly. But I wouldn't say I've lost any of my childhood, I've always been a mature child. My Mom says I've been like that since I was little kid. I make time for my friends and I make time for things that other kids do. This is a business and I knew what I was getting into. I make time for being a kid, but I also know when to put on my business hat and go for the business.

  • The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

  • The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any regulation of this process on the part of the organism.

  • I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.

  • I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad?

  • Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.

  • If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.

  • I'll keep doing the right things and the results will come

  • I'm always going to make sure I'm doing the right things.