“There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.”
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Famous Paul Newman Quotes
“So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.”
“You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.”
“The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'”
“No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen.”
“So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.”
“It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.”
“Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.”
“Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.”
“Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.”
“Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.”
Source: Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: The Madcap Business Adventure by the Truly Oddest Couple
Source: Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: The Madcap Business Adventure by the Truly Oddest Couple
“Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.”
Source: In Pursuit of the Common Good: Twenty-Five Years of Improving the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time
“I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance”
“What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?”
“While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.”
“The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.”
“A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.”
“I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.”