Richard DeVos
I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan's first AIDS commission.
You've got to take responsibility for your actions.
If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.
I deal with a lot of wonderful gay people. I hire a lot of them. I use a lot of them. I respect them. They're terrific. I am good friends with them. But you live your life the way you want to live, and I'll live mine, and I won't stick my nose in yours.
The Lord has a way of working in our lives, and sometimes he brings us down low to bring new values back to our life.
Faith is my foundation because you work on a faith basis that you believe God has his hand on you.
As business moves forward, you realize that God has his hand on the whole business and that he brought people to you who are like-minded. It starts with faith.
I am always amazed at how many guys in the NBA have never met an owner much less ever been to an owner's house. We bought the team so that we would be able to be a positive force, so that they in turn would be a positive force to young people everywhere.
When you've lived as long I've lived, you see things from a bigger lens, and you try to share that with the young guys coming up, including being patient.
You have to move in life, but the loyalty you develop in a community is always remembered. But if you leave, you don't pick it up in the next town. It's not an add-on, you know, because you lose what you had.
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''Collection: Perseverance
One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life.Collection: Wise
Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.Collection: Persistence
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.Collection: Positive
This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.Collection: Opportunity
Great moments await around every corner.Collection: Perseverance
I have seen countless people make a choice to be confident. If you don't naturally feel bold and confident, you can choose an attitude of confidence.Collection: Basketball
You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package.Collection: Sacrifice