Wayne Dyer Quotes

Since I was younger I've been making the best out of nothing.

I saw a sign on the side of the road in Tennessee once that said 'dirt for sale'... what a great country we live in. DIRT for sale. How would you like to get inside that guy's mind and look around for a hour? That guy sees opportunity at every glance, doesn't he?

In my entire life, any time I've ever lost something, I've gotten something even better going around the next corner. It's like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they're going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

If I don't get work, I'll create it.

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.

Being independent... is being innovative out of inspiration as well as necessity.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

My mother could make something out of nothing - and everything started from scratch.

When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.

Embrace your fire - even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business.

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.

A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to 'TV Guide.' I knew how to make a presentation.

I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'