Tommy Mottola famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.
. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

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