Rona Barrett Quotes

To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.

Don't worry about making friends; don't worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can't hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can't stand you.

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

I haven't spent years in fashion making friends and making enemies.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.

We have rivals, implacable rivals who constantly oppose the influence which we already exert. They strive to frustrate us in every way possible.

I don't mind not being President; I just mind that someone else is.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavor to have those who do us honor.

Life is a competitive endeavor.

I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I can give him wealth. I can give him reputation - the power, the wealth, the reputation which come to a man who speaks to a million people a day in the columns of a great paper.

Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against.

I just want to fight the best.

It's all about competing.

The best friend I have is competition.

You've got so many guys coming up and putting in work, and everybody wants to be in my position, so I gotta be paranoid and think that if I'm not producing, if I'm not going out there and winning fights and winning impressively, I'm gonna be replaced.

I am the best in the world, and all these guys are fighting me to gain credit.

Although I do not believe in fame, what it brings me is the fact that I can ask someone to work with me, and they do not say no.

Jay White has a great chance to make his name off of me. But I'm not going to make that easy.

I know there are some powerful people in the industry who don't want me to do well.

If you can make it in Rockford, you can make it anywhere.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

Like it or not, life is a series of competitions.

Everybody's trying to be the biggest, because if you're not the biggest, you don't survive.