Rainn Wilson Quotes

I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.

It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one.

What I want is to be number one.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.

In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is, when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself.

Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!

After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two.

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.

The problem with naming a No. 2 is you really want to throw all your weight behind the guy who is going to be the leader.

I have always wanted to be Number One, but I wanted power solely to help the poor and disadvantaged.

In a totalitarian system the de facto number 2 man is an unenviable position…. Often times the life of the number 2 man is short and precarious.

I want to be number one.

I'm definitely trying to be Number One.

I'd like to start a tradition of getting No. 1s - how 'bout that?

I don't want to be a number two, that's clear. I want to play.

I don't think everyone wants to be a CEO.

It's something nice to be number one, of course, but there are much more expectations.

I want to take that top spot in WWE, and I'm gunning for number one.

But - there's no point in aiming to be Number Two. You've got to have a plan-to-win attitude.

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

Rap's the occupation, but one day watch I'll be Pimp of the Nation.

I've got to be first. ALL the time.

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.