Maurice Saatchi Quotes

If you stand for something, that means there are going to be people who support you and people who don't support you.

If you stand for something, you will always find some people for you and some people against you. If you stand for nothing, you will find nobody against you, and nobody for you.

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

You have to have enough conviction to stand for something. It doesn't matter if it's the opposing party or your own party.

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

Fight for what is true. What is true is enough.

When you just stand for something, you kind of stand for it.

I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

I have realised taking a stand is tough, but what's tougher is maintaining it and letting go of all those who doubt your intent.

A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody.

It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day.

What is faith if it is not translated into action?

Any man who lives by his beliefs is to be admired, not mocked.

A core value is something you're willing to get punished for.

Belief is the cornerstone of all the great achievements since the beginning of time.

It's all the same to the clam.

I am not capitulating.

Stand up for Truth regardless of who steps on it.