Running Quotes

The air moves like a river and carries the clouds with it; just as running water carries all the things that float upon it.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.

Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.

I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue.

At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

You're always running into people's unconscious.

Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.

If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.