Overextension Quotes

He who defends everything defends nothing.

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident and removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight. The story of the ruin is simple and obvious: and instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed we should rather be surprised that it has subsisted for so long.

About 25 years ago, my wife and I bought Kenny Loggins' house in Santa Barbara. It was way out of our price range, but we said, 'Screw it, let's go for it.' We've raised our family there. We overextended ourselves at the perfect time in our lives, and it worked out for the best.

I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.

One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.

Christians have created a holiday that has become a beast that cannot be fed. Christmas gets longer and longer and longer, and you don't care, do you? You just take more and more of the calendar for yourself. It's unbelievable. How long does it take you people to shop? It's beyond belief. It's insane. When I was a kid, Halloween was Halloween, and Santa wasn't poking his ass into it.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

The business (and person) who tries to be everything to everyone ends up being nothing to anyone.

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Catch several hares and you won't catch one.

In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin.

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

All things to all people is nothing to everyone.

I was spreading myself too thin. That was making me unhappy and that, in turn, was making the rest of Stone Sour unhappy.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough.

The only thing I wasn't prepared for was being everywhere all at the same time.

I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or emotionally handle, which causes me to break down in quite predictable displays of dramatic exhaustion. You will be the one burdened with the job of mopping me up every time I've overextended myself and then fallen apart. This will be unbelievably tedious. I apologize in advance.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.