All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

A word after a word after a word is power.

God always has patience.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‚Do as You promised.‘

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

I love big business!

The Second Amendment is just as important as all the other Amendments.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church’s credibility.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.