Sam Wyly Quotes & Sayings

Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity. — Sam Wyly

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers. — Sam Wyly

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper. — Sam Wyly

Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like. — Sam Wyly

The purpose of a business is to create customers. — Sam Wyly

The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists. — Sam Wyly

I'm interested in personalities, not political parties. — Sam Wyly

Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters. — Sam Wyly

I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy. — Sam Wyly

I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy. — Sam Wyly

In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity. — Sam Wyly

I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people. — Sam Wyly

The story of the entrepreneur ... is the story of forward progress, of pursuing one's dreams and goals no matter how outlandish they seem to others. The entrepreneur, like the pioneer, pushes boundaries in search of what's new, what's next. Sometimes, he brings the whole society with him, rushing forward together into a next phase of our communal human life. — Sam Wyly