Joey Adams Quotes

You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.

I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.

There are so many aspects of the game that you can work on - you can drive it father, you can drive it straighter, you can hit your irons higher and more consistently, you can get better with your wedges, and you can always putt better. There's never an end to that striving to get better in golf.

I'm trying to get better on and off the golf course at all times so I think it's a work in progress all day long.

One method of staying ahead of rising asset prices and the declining dollar is to think bigger and come up with better plans. As important as financial and business planning is a plan for personal development and self-improvement. I'm often asked to invest in people's business plans, and one of the reasons I turn many of them down is because a big plan requires a big person who's spent time on personal development. In a lot of cases, a business plan is far bigger than the person with the plan - that is, the dream is bigger than the dreamer.

In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.

Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.

I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.

My driving and irons are the best part of my game. Growing to be 5-foot-11 has certainly helped.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

We believe that the business system only is the key to success. It's no miracle, only day-to-day work in the appropriate way.

You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

I'm one of a few guys on the PGA Tour who doesn't work with an instructor. I'm not saying mechanics don't matter. But I play my best when I focus on staying in a good place mentally and keep the technique simple.

I found an instructor, Chris O'Connell, who helped me. He turned me into the player I am today - a consistent golfer.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

Succeeding in business is not just about making money.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.

Yes, we can do business in Nepal and still succeed. That is what I proved.