Joe Calzaghe Quotes

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

Sometimes ruin comes for lack of judgment.

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. Just don't reload the gun.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent

Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.

I went broke after sophomore year, gambled away all my money, sold some guns, turned $750 into $10,000, flew to Vegas, turned ten thou into $187,000.

Follow the money at all costs, and you might wind up regretting it.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.

If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

Pride went before, ambition follows him.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.