T. D. Jakes Quotes

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

If nothing else, I have money.

I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop.

You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue.

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

Owning a great golf course gives you great power.

He's sitting in the catbird seat.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

On the most exalted throne in the world, we are still seated on nothing but our arse.

…property in fact generally confers power, though the possessor of it may not have much more wit than a mole or a mugwash…

If you were a Rockefeller, wouldn’t you be?.

I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.

The result of being a Kennedy is that I have extraordinary opportunities that I wouldn't otherwise have.

Once you have the money, fame, success or power, it's so easy to maintain that, because all you have to do is play it safe.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.

To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

My thing in high school was being the tallest kid in class. Always. I was always the tallest kid in class.

People with leverage have dominance over people with less leverage. In other words, just as humans gained advantages over animals by creating leveraged tools, similarly, humans who use these tools of leverage have more power over humans that do not. Saying it more simply, 'leverage is power'.

Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you.

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.

It's good to be the king.

But I got this far, didn’t I?” he said slowly. “They thought I’d die in the attempt, but I’m here . . . and you’re in my power. . . . I’m the one with the wand. . . . you’re at my mercy. . .