Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

Similar James F. Byrnes quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.
- The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
- School was designed to get you to fall in line and get a job in someone else’s company.
- Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Traction equals satisfaction
- Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
- If you’re just starting out, don’t focus on the cheese, focus on the cow.
- If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.
- If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.
- We figured even if we crash and burn, and lose everything, the experience will have been worth ten times the cost.
- If you need inspiration, don’t do it.
- It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Actually, I’m an overnight success. But it took twenty years.
- People who don’t venture will keep working for the people who ventured.
- The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
- Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Always do what you love in order to love what you do.
- Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
- Being busy doesn’t mean being productive.
- Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get