People Quotes

Very successful people say no to almost everything.

Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

Money will not change how healthy you are or how many people love you.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

Just before I record, I go buy a few albums to see what people are doing. Whether they have improved any, or whether anything happened. And nothing's really happened. There's a lot of great guitarists and musicians around, but nothing's happening, you know.

People are afraid of Beatle music. They are still afraid of my songs. Because they got that big image thing: You can't do a Beatle number... You can't touch a Lennon song; only Lennon can do it... It's garbage! Anybody can do anything. A few people in the past have done Beatle songs. But in general they feel you can't touch them. And there are so many good singles that the Beatles wrote that were never released. Why don't people do them? It's good for me; it's good for Paul. It's good for all of us.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.