Steve Johnson

In today’’s rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards!

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

Think BIG! You are going to be thinking anyway, so think BIG!

Some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

There’s never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

The greatest effort is not concerned with results.

What distinguishes us from one another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.