Quotes About Devos

#1. It is fun to be Rich DeVos. It's great fun.

Richard DeVos

#2. By 2009, [Richard] DeVos's son, Dick and daughter-in-law Betsy were major donors on the Koch lust and facing a $5.2 million civil fine of their own for violating Ohio's campaign-finance laws.

Jane Mayer

#3. You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package.

Richard DeVos

#4. 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.

Richard DeVos

#5. When you have two paths, both that end in pain, there isn't really a choice. You just have to choose which one you can live with the easiest.

Bella Jewel

#6. Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push - a smile. A word of optimism and hope, a 'you can do it!' when things are tough

Richard M. DeVos

#7. 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.

Richard DeVos

#8. 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.

Richard DeVos

#9. 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.

Richard DeVos

#10. Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

John Wooden

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

Richard M. DeVos

#12. 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.

Richard DeVos

#13. Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

Richard DeVos

#14. The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.

Rich DeVos

#15. 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.

Richard DeVos

#16. 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.

Richard DeVos

#17. The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

Richard M. DeVos

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

Richard M. DeVos

#19. If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

Richard M. DeVos

#20. The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.

Peter S. Beagle

#21. Faith is my foundation because you work on a faith basis that you believe God has his hand on you.

Richard DeVos

#22. Life ... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

Richard M. DeVos

#23. Humans are intelligent and resourceful. If we've been around a million or more years, why are we so disinclined to believe that we could have built cities 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 or even more years ago?

Christina Engela

#24. 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.

Richard DeVos

#25. 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.

Richard DeVos

#26. If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Richard M. DeVos

#27. 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.

Richard DeVos

#28. I felt a lot better; not being alone in being alone.

K.R. Albers

#29. Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

Stephen Leacock