Olin Miller

You can’t live principals you can’t understand.

You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

I’ve never been terribly interested in why people give, because their motivation is rarely what it seems to be, and it’s almost never true altruism.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Each businessperson must find a style, that voice that grows clearer and louder with each success and failure. Observing your own and your competitors’ successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

We are guided by outcomes, not ideology. We have a policy of principled realism, rooted in shared goals, interests, and values. That realism forces us to confront a question facing every leader and nation in this room. It is a question we cannot escape or avoid. We will slide down the path of complacency, numb to the challenges, threats, and even wars that we face. Or do we have enough strength and pride to confront those dangers today, so that our citizens can enjoy peace and prosperity tomorrow?

Remember there’s no such thing as an unrealistic goal, just unrealistic time frames!

Done is better than perfect.

The future belongs to the dreamers, not to the critics. The future belongs to the people who follow their heart, no matter what the critics say, because they truly believe in their vision.

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don’t hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

Thinking expansively includes seeing what is possible and making it happen.