"We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened."

-- Walt Disney

#Business Quotes #Octopus Quotes #Down And Quotes

“I never had a plan B. I feel if u have a plan B, you are giving yourself the chance to never accomplish plan A. My plan B was to accomplish plan A.”
“One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.”
“Love prefers twilight to daylight.”
“The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.”
“Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.”

Source : Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.244, W. W. Norton & Company
“A girl never knows when she might need a couple of diamonds at 10 o'clock in the morning.”
“I think [Whitewater]'s going to prevent the First Lady from running for Senate.”
“Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.”

Source : Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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