Sam Ewing Quotes


"When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood."
- Sam Ewing
(Related: Home, Childhood, Old)

"We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit."
- Sam Ewing
(Related: Nothing, Profit, World)

"The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect."
- Sam Ewing
(Related: Government, Money, Difference)

"The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists."
- Sam Ewing
(Related: Tourists)

"Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it."
- Sam Ewing
(Related: Success, People, May)

"Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about."
- Sam Ewing
(Related: Nothing, Talking)

"Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career."
- Sam Ewing
(Related: Marriage, Father, Career)

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair."
- Sam Ewing
(Related: Hair, Inflation)

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
- Sam Ewing
(Related: Work, Character, Hard work, Noses)

"Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from."
- Sam Ewing
(Related: Parents, Wonder)

"On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died."
- Sam Ewing
(Related: Decision, Dawn, Hesitation, Waiting)