Top 180 James Cook Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.”

— James Cook

2. “To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.”

— James Cook

3. “Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.”

— James Cook

4. “When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.”

— James Cook

5. “If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.”

— James Cook

6. “Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.”

— James Cook

7. “Struggle is the architect of the soul.”

— James Cook

8. “Management is simple, innovation is hard.”

— James Cook

9. “The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.”

— James Cook

10. “Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.”

— James Cook

11. “Never underestimate the incompetence of government.”

— James Cook

12. “A free ride is life’s most difficult journey.”

— James Cook

13. “Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.”

— James Cook

14. “The power of faith to ease our suffering is God’s love.”

— James Cook

15. “To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.”

— James Cook

16. “Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.”

— James Cook

17. “To enslave a people, give them money they didn’t earn.”

— James Cook

18. “The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”

— James Cook

19. “Time flies when you’re running out of money.”

— James Cook

20. “A salesman sees a commission.”

— James Cook

21. “Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.”

— James Cook

22. “Faith puts the power of the universe at your disposal.”

— James Cook

23. “Those who think profit is a dirty word should try to make one.”

— James Cook

24. “You slight yourself when you’re easily slighted.”

— James Cook

25. “Most everything government does is worse than useless.”

— James Cook

26. “Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.”

— James Cook

27. “People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.”

— James Cook

28. “Investors believe in the best possible outcome.”

— James Cook

29. “The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.”

— James Cook

30. “The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.”

— James Cook

31. “The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.”

— James Cook

32. “It’s easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.”

— James Cook

33. “The soul is that part of you in harmony with God.”

— James Cook

34. “When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.”

— James Cook

35. “You can’t suffer over two things at once.”

— James Cook

36. “Taxes are a penalty on progress.”

— James Cook

37. “The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.”

— James Cook

38. “Inequality promotes progress.”

— James Cook

39. “Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees.”

— James Cook

40. “Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.”

— James Cook

41. “From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but.”

— James Cook

42. “Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.”

— James Cook

43. “If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn’t earn, ‘something for nothing.’”

— James Cook

44. “When you are aggrieved you learn.”

— James Cook

45. “Memory doesn’t erase. The recall ability fails.”

— James Cook

46. “Allowing liberals to manage economic policy is like hiring monkeys to be aircraft mechanics.”

— James Cook

47. “Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.”

— James Cook

48. “The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.”

— James Cook

49. “When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.”

— James Cook

50. “The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.”

— James Cook