James E. Risch Quotes

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.'

Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.

We can and we will solve our problems for ourselves. We know how. We can, and we will.

If people want to find things, they find them themselves.

Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.

With AC/DC, if you've got a problem, you sort it out yourself.

I figured out quick I had to write my own ticket. I realized I could tell stories and make money from it.

I'm not in the business of telling people 'DIY or die,' but I do think it's important to be as hands-on with what you're doing as possible.

I take pleasure in discovering resourcefulness inside me.

If I don't get work, I'll create it.

When there is no work, I create my own.

When we launched, we had to figure out every problem - big or small - on our own.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

I'm the kind of person that if I'm not getting something that I need from somewhere. I don't cry about it, I'm like OK I'm going to go here and find what I need.

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.

I'm trying to do it my way. For me to be happy in the business means I have to do it myself.