Dan Quayle Quotes

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

Whatever I do, I like to be the one doing it. I don't just like to get someone in to run it and put a name to it.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

I enjoy making the decisions.

I could do whatever I wanted, whether people liked it or not.

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.

I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me what to do.

I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.

I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.

There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.

I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.

I'll do what I've got to do in my own career and my own life. For my own happiness. I'm not gonna be bent over a barrel and told what to do.

We want everybody to be bossed up.

Please don't tell me what I can't do.

I like to be in control of my own destiny.

We've always been do-it-yourself. In that we've had complete control.

Why do I manage myself? I don't trust anyone else to do it, to be honest.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.