Top 380 Bill Vaughan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.”

— Bill Vaughan

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2. “The highest duty is to respect authority.”

— Bill Vaughan

3. “You only get to keep what you give away.”

— Bill Vaughan

4. “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”

— Bill Vaughan

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5. “You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.”

— Bill Vaughan

6. “Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.”

— Bill Vaughan

7. “There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.”

— Bill Vaughan

8. “The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.”

— Bill Vaughan

9. “If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.”

— Bill Vaughan

10. “Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.”

— Bill Vaughan

11. “Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.”

— Bill Vaughan

12. “Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.”

— Bill Vaughan

13. “In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.”

— Bill Vaughan

14. “We pursue that which retreats from us.”

— Bill Vaughan

15. “Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.”

— Bill Vaughan

16. “I think second place is always the most difficult one. It’s not a nice feeling.”

— Bill Vaughan

17. “The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.”

— Bill Vaughan

18. “Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.”

— Bill Vaughan

19. “The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.”

— Bill Vaughan

20. “One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.”

— Bill Vaughan

21. “Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.”

— Bill Vaughan

22. “Vote in a national election.”

— Bill Vaughan

23. “It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back.”

— Bill Vaughan

24. “Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.”

— Bill Vaughan

25. “Despatch is the soul of business.”

— Bill Vaughan

26. “Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.”

— Bill Vaughan

27. “A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!”

— Bill Vaughan

28. “Everything pales in comparison to deer.”

— Bill Vaughan

29. “When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.”

— Bill Vaughan

30. “On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.”

— Bill Vaughan

31. “Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.”

— Bill Vaughan

32. “Do not expect too much of the end of the world.”

— Bill Vaughan

33. “Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.”

— Bill Vaughan

34. “I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.”

— Bill Vaughan

35. “The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.”

— Bill Vaughan

36. “The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.”

— Bill Vaughan

37. “Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said.”

— Bill Vaughan

38. “The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.”

— Bill Vaughan

39. “Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.”

— Bill Vaughan

40. “Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.”

— Bill Vaughan

41. “The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.”

— Bill Vaughan

42. “Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.”

— Bill Vaughan

43. “The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.”

— Bill Vaughan

44. “Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.”

— Bill Vaughan

45. “A man’s penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.”

— Bill Vaughan

46. “How meagre one’s life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one’s tombstone: a name, two dates.”

— Bill Vaughan

47. “SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.”

— Bill Vaughan

48. “People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.”

— Bill Vaughan

49. “He suffered from paralysis by analysis.”

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50. “I’m a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.”

— Bill Vaughan