Quotes
Authors
Matt Roper
"I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army." --
Matt Roper
#Dad Quotes
#Army Quotes
#Funeral Quotes
“People seem to have acquired the idea that they have the inalienable right to stroll through life without either having sweated, picked up anything heavy, worked hard, or eaten less than they wanted at every meal. This approach is, of course, wrong. And it has resulted in a lot of expensive, unattractive, and entirely preventable problems amongst people who seem puzzled about why things aren't going well.”
“The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.”
“I've always had a fascination with interior design. As a kid, I used to go to real estate open houses with my parents on the weekends. Like a nerd! I would think of how I would piece rooms together at those open houses.”
“Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.”
“Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.”
“Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.”
“I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.”
“In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.”
