Paul Engle Quotes

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

My parents didn't have much money growing up, but they always had a budget for books.

My mom laid the foundation that in order for you to be successful, you have to take care of the books first. That's one thing she preached about, because at any point, other stuff can be taken away.

You can have a passion for something, but you still have to pay the bills.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.

Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.

Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

He that is rich is wise.

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

There are a lot of guys who are successful, they make a lot of big money, I mean millions overnight with a contract, and they don't understand the evaporation. It evaporates. You're always back to square one. I found that out, so integrity is how I do business. That's my main asset.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.

I've been given my money. Nobody has ever beaten me out of one quarter. And that's all I've ever been concerned about.