Top 99 Best Sam Quotes
#2. I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive. But really, our best ideas usually do come from the folks in the stores. Period.
Sam Walton
#3. Sam Allberry says it best: "Desires for things God has forbidden are a reflection of how sin has distorted me, not how God has made me."22
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#4. Wow, you know a lot of swear words," Sam commented at one point. "And here I thought I had a dirty mouth."
"What can I say? Apparently candid porn starring my boyfriend brings out the best in me.
Gemma Halliday
#5. If you're not in college and you don't know a cofounder, the next best thing I think is to go work at an interesting company.
Sam Altman
#6. I wanted to make at least an effort to impress, so I found my best suit, a Primark special that looked like it had been ironed by a blind man
Jay Stringer
#7. If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.
Sam Walton
#8. Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.
Sam Weller
#9. We think we have the best matching algorithm, we think we have the best members. So why wouldn't we want to just shine the light onto just how our processes work, what the real data are, and let people come to their own conclusions.
Sam Yagan
#10. One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.
Sam Worthington
#11. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
Sam Walton
#12. Tech companies tend to do tech best.
Sam Altman
#13. Being a fangirl is the best thing that's ever happened to me. ...We know what we're into, we love hard, and we're okay with it.
Sam Maggs
#14. She liked reality shows the best, and then the shows that purported to be about reality.
Sam Lipsyte
#15. MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.
Sam Wineburg
#16. Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place.
Sam Altman
#17. I wish Michael Sam nothing but the best in his quest to become a star in the NFL,and I am confident he will get the opportunity to show what he can do on the field.
Tony Dungy
#18. The sight of home looks best after you've traveled hundreds of miles to get away from it.
Sam Ewing
#19. Frank told me once
and I don't know whether he's right or not, and I didn't tell Sam this either
that all the best undercovers have a dark thread woven into them, somewhere.
Tana French
#20. I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.
Sam Rockwell
#21. To get the very best people- they have a lot of great options, and so it can easily take a year to recruit someone.
Sam Altman
#22. The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.
Sam Altman
#23. The best way to hide the truth is to shroud it in myth
Sam A. Patel
#24. Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.
Sam Altman
#25. There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose these kinds of things. Competition makes us better. Some of our best stores have a Sam's Club next door.
James Sinegal
#26. The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.
Sam Altman
#27. The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.
Sam Keen
#28. Seve Ballesteros was a million percent the best Ryder Cupper on either side of Europe and America.
Sam Torrance
#29. It was actually the movie 'Rushmore' that made me first realize that I could try writing, but 'Cheers' is the best show ever. The writers on that show created a relationship that writers today still fail to rip off successfully: the Sam and Diane.
Anders Holm
#30. I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.
Sam Keen
#31. I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
Sam Raimi
#32. I love Dallas, Austin and Houston. Why? Because some of the best comedians, like Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, started their careers in Texas, and because the crowds there are comedy-educated.
Bobby Lee
#33. I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
Sam Abell
#34. Robert Trivers argues, for instance, that people who can believe their own lies turn out to be the best liars of all - and an ability to deceive rivals has obvious advantages in the state of nature.
Sam Harris
#35. Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'
Sam Claflin
#36. The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.
Sam Keen
#37. Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
Sam Worthington
#38. My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
Sam Abell
#39. But what about love, compassion, moral goodness, and self-transcendence? Many people still imagine that religion is the true repository of these virtues. To change this, we must talk about the full range of human experience in a way that is as free of dogma as the best science already is.
Sam Harris
#40. She should have known from that moment; nothing could hurt them. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse might have rode into town. Gilly and Sam would have knocked Death off his pale steed and swiped War's sword for a souvenir.
Kristopher Reisz
#41. When we presume to lie for the benefit of others, we have decided that we are the best judges of how much they should understand about their own lives - about how they appear, their reputations, or their prospects in the world.
Sam Harris
#42. She came up for air, ready to apologize, when strong arms lifted her from the water and firm lips captured hers. She knew, even without looking, that it was Sam. And she put everything she had into the kiss. If she only had one shot, she'd make it her best.
Tori Scott
#43. The truth is that most of our modern values are antithetical to the specific teachings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. And where we do find these values expressed in our holy books, they are almost never best expressed there.
Sam Harris
#44. It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
R. Lee Ermey
#45. We talk to a team, they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will go on to be successful.
Sam Altman
#46. As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company.
Sam Altman
#47. We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best ... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.
Sam Altman
#48. Take the best out of everything and adapt it to your needs.
Sam Walton
#49. The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
Sam Walton
#50. We are at our best when we help the weakest. The weak make us strong.
Sam Brownback
#51. One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.
Sam Altman
#52. Perfect love, like perfect partner does not exist. We create our own perfect love. If you care to know, a a good partner is like a construction engineer. To build the kind of house he want, he must pick the material that best suits his needs and maybe his wallet too.
Augustine Sam
#53. Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.
Sam Dunn
#54. I was 90% certain Thia was the best therapist money could buy; the remaining 10%, I still questioned if she was certifiable.
Genna Rulon
#55. You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.
Sam Altman
#56. While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm earlier reconnaissance: Vancouver is among the best eating towns in the history of the Winter Games.
Sam Sifton
#57. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.
Sam Walton
#58. There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.
Sam Walton
#59. [Felix Frankfurter] said courts are not representative bodies. They're not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society. Their judgment is best informed and, therefore, most dependable within narrow limits.
Sam Brownback
#60. Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.
Sam Altman
#61. Trying to figure out how to best manage his time between doing a task for imbeciles and avoiding imminent and painful death by protocol. I
Sam Sykes
#62. The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
Sam Abell
#63. Chris Hemsworth is like my bromance. Seriously, I think I really inherited one of my best friends now. He doesn't know this yet, but I'm going to stalk him if he doesn't.
Sam Claflin
#64. All we cared about was dividends. Well, we can't do business that way today. We have learned that what's best for the countries we operate in is best for the company. Maybe we can't make the people love us, but we will make ourselves so useful to them that they will want us to stay.
Sam Zemurray
#65. The best defense to inquiry was semi-coherent rants and accusations.
Sam Sykes
#66. Give your life's best a whole new polished definition with a unique style that distinguishes you.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#67. It's a fine line. If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden - as I've often been described in some movies. Fair enough. I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for.
Sam Worthington
#68. I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.
Sam Altman
#69. At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#70. My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.
Sam Yagan
#71. The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.
Sam Cawthorn
#72. As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never best found there, and it is subverted, time and again, by ancient savagery and superstition.
Sam Harris
#73. Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.
Sam Crawford
#74. In the best case, notions of God's love and grace provide some relief - but the central message of these faiths is that each of us is separate from, and in relationship to, a divine authority who will punish anyone who harbors the slightest doubt about His supremacy.
Sam Harris
#75. I would challenge anyone here to think of a questions upon which we once had a scientific answer, however inadequate, but for which now the best answer is a religious one.
Sam Harris
#76. Henry stilled and peeled his shirt over his head, announcing, "Threesome."
"Excuse me?" Sam questioned as Henry advanced.
"Fine, twosome, but Levee gets to watch. She is my best friend, after all.
Aly Martinez
#77. The best founders work on things that seem small but they move really quickly. They get things done really quickly.
Sam Altman
#78. Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.
Sam Altman
#79. One glance at the way he looked at her, and Sam knew exactly what he was. A lethal habit, she thought. The accelerator on a race car. A halo jump on a crystal clear day. The best possible rush with the worst possible consequences.
Alexi Lawless
#80. The world needs you more than you can think of! Do your best to make this place better.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#81. Even the best documentaries reach tens of thousands in their cinematic window. I believe that by launching online, we could potentially reach millions.
Sam Branson
#82. I believe that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior when it comes to religious fanaticism.
Sam Brower
#83. I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
Sam Waterston
#84. I've been in more than 20 movies. You just do the best you can and try to make a living.
Sam Rockwell
#85. You can win with the best product, the best price, or the best experience.
Sam Altman
#86. She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend.
Rachel Caine
#87. Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
Sam Altman
#88. In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.
Sam Altman
#89. The best people know that they should join a rocketship.
Sam Altman
#90. There are other ideologies with which to expunge the last vapors of reasonableness from a society's discourse, but Islam is undoubtedly one of the best we've got.
Sam Harris
#91. This was historical revisionism at its best, and hadn't Sam always specialized in that, hadn't she always said she wished she had a permanent film rolling of their life so she could go back and prove that, yes, he did so say that thing he now denied?
Liane Moriarty
#92. Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewing
#93. I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.
Sam Hunt
#94. It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put forward best by Justice [Felix] Frankfurter, appointed by President [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.
Sam Brownback
#95. Directing Skyfall was one of the best experiences of my professional life, but I have theatre and other commitments, including productions of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and King Lear, that need my complete focus over the next year and beyond.
Sam Mendes
#96. I want to win a championship with the best drivers, the best engineers and the best technology. As drivers, we want to make sure that we are involved in a championship with such a standard.
Sam Bird
#97. When you're thinking about building your own online dating profile, especially on OkCupid, you should go through the same steps you're thinking about when you're going out to meet someone new. You want to put your best foot forward.
Sam Yagan
#98. In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.
Sam Huff
#99. Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.
Sam Abell
