Mickey Gilley Quotes

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

The strongest absorbs the weakest, and he has a right to do so.

Modern industry and the opening of the world market made the struggle universal and at the same time gave it unheard-of virulence. Advantages in natural or artificial conditions of production now decide the existence or non-existence of individual capitalists as well as of whole industries and countries. He that falls is remorselessly cast aside.

People are violent by nature. That’s why we rule the earth; we beat the crap out of everyone else.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

Get big or get out!

I have not survived 50 years in showbusiness by being Mr. Nice. If you are weak, this business eats you up.

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.

The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

Only the strong survive.

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.

Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not possess the force to secure his Lebensraum in this world, and, if necessary, to enlarge it, does not deserve to possess the necessities of life. He must step aside and allow stronger peoples to pass him by.

The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

There are too many people on horseback today trying to prove themselves, trying to prepare, trying to get faster. They haven't discovered yet that it's not the fastest who make it to race day. You only have to be the fastest of those who are left.

The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.

What payoff are you getting for remaining stuck at this point in your expansion?

All life is a struggle.... Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.