Richard M. DeVos

“What you have to do is be a good steward of the money you have, and the way you do that is you don't spend it all.”

“You cannot go into a venture and not have a dream.”

“All of us, in a sense, are sales people. We are trying to sell our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasm to the people with whom we work.”

“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”

“We cannot just be takers. We have to be givers.”

“It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.”

“Few of us get anything without working for it.”

“If you don't have a dream, you'll end up working for someone who does.”

“The basic goal of a leader is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.”

“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.”

“Success is not a destination, but a journey.”

“Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.”

“You can do anything in this world you want to do, if you want to do it badly enough and you are willing to pay the price.”