Richard DeVos Quotes

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!'

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.