Roy Barnes Quotes

There's something about me that wants to grow a big company. I don't deny that. I enjoy the game, and the only way to really enjoy it is to win. I like to win. It's more fun.

We do today what they won't, so tomorrow we accomplish what they can't.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

Great men grow.

Results transform the world, and a great dream creates results. That's what this thing we call 'business' is really all about.

Even if we had the No. 1 video on MTV, and we had money and everything else, I think we'd always have more to do. I don't ever want to wake up in the morning and say, 'What are we gonna do today?' I'm afraid of that. I don't ever want to wake up and feel like we've conquered.

You have to have a business model you believe in and like.

Jean Tigana wants to go to the top with Fulham, and I like that ambition.

I think you should never really feel like you've 'made it.'

In periods when everything was going really well I may have taken my foot off the pedal and got comfortable where I was at, not carrying on to the next level.

When you are the manager, you want to win.

As a manager, it's the same as a player: I want to see how far I can get.

If a person is too 'satisfied', then he might become complacent, not work so hard to get ahead.

So many people get content. So many people stop when they're at the top. They'll let someone take their place because they're relaxing. That's not going to happen.

If you settle in life, you don't go further.

People who look at Apple's success and think we look at it as, 'Okay, great, we're done,' don't appreciate what's really going on here.

I've just got to keep working hard, try to get my team better. That's a goal of mine.

Business is my passion.