Walter Annenberg famous quotes

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Worry #Ruth #Babe

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Vacation #Too Much #Too Much Work

I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Inspirational #Persistence #Order

Accomplish something every day of your life.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Life Is Short #Accomplish

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.
-- Walter Annenberg

#People #Making Money #Minutes

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Adversity #Tests #Inevitable

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Independence #Compromise

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Team #Play #Giving

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Character #Challenges #Tests

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Kids #School #World

Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Eye #Blue #Blood

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Enthusiasm #Easy #Intrigue

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
-- Walter Annenberg

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Thinking #What Matters #Matter

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Character #Pigs #Want

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Son #Moses #Born

TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Tvs #Program #Theater

My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Country #Very Good #Be Good

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Art #Thinking #People

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Economic #Young #Mainstream

Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Views #Sake #Citizenship

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Education #College #World

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way 'round.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Mistake #Way #Rich

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Four #Painting #Plus

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Fighting #Temptation #Surrender

You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Benefits #Satisfied

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Littles #Nancy

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Tape #Heard #Saddened

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Independent #Editors #Special

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Energy

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Blessing #Ties #Boredom

Be respectful to others as you grow... If we lack respect for one group, then there is a tendency for that attitude to spread. It becomes infectious and no one becomes safe from the ravages of prejudice.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Respect #Attitude #Prejudice

Few things are as essential as education.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Essentials

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Deeds #Good Deeds

Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
-- Walter Annenberg

#White #House #Done

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Feels

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Political #Political Power

Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.
-- Walter Annenberg

#Painting #Collecting #Should