Larry Bossidy

A man can seldom – very, very, seldom – fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak of yourself.

If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.

Do you realize that you can’t play the game of life with sweaty palms?

She isn’t the sunrise, she’s the f**king sun.

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

We’re cool for the summer.

When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.

Am I ever gonna grow a thick skin? No.

Love is not the absence of hate; hate will always exist. Love is holding our head high and forever moving forward with kindness and compassion in spite of what hate may bring, because no amount of darkness can drown out our light if our light has been lit within.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

They ask me how I love you and I say in pages, in novels, in volumes. I love you like my favorite story, the one that I wake up to every day and watch unfold. And I don’t know how it ends, but I know your name is already written in the chapters of my life that I have yet to live.