Richard DeVos Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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!' — Richard DeVos

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

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

It is fun to be Rich DeVos. It's great fun. — Richard DeVos

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

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

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

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

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

Faith is my foundation because you work on a faith basis that you believe God has his hand on you. — Richard DeVos

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose. — Richard DeVos