Top 40 Larry King Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.”

— Larry King

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2. “The first rule of my speaking is: listen!”

— Larry King

3. “If I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.”

— Larry King

4. “Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.”

— Larry King

5. “The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.”

— Larry King

6. “It’s joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you’re kind of an easy mark.”

— Larry King

7. “You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design.”

— Larry King

8. “You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.”

— Larry King

9. “My first rule of conversation is this: I never learn a thing while I’m talking. I realize every morning that nothing I say today will teach me anything, so if I’m going to learn a lot today, I’ll have to do it by listening. As.”

— Larry King

10. “If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.”

— Larry King

11. “Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves.”

— Larry King

12. “When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don’t know why.”

— Larry King

13. “If you do something, expect consequences.”

— Larry King

14. “I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I’d change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.”

— Larry King

15. “I have never understood the Iowa caucus.”

— Larry King

16. “I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I’ve had bonds for over 50 years with people.”

— Larry King

17. “I’m the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.”

— Larry King

18. “I would like to ask Him if He was indeed virgin born, because the answer to that question would define history.”

— Larry King

19. “I’m sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it’s OK to relax.”

— Larry King

20. “Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.”

— Larry King

21. “Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn’t feel right.”

— Larry King

22. “There is nothing in your destiny, nothing in your future that you cannot accomplish.”

— Larry King

23. “I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.”

— Larry King

24. “I’ve made a lot of mistakes. I’ve bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.”

— Larry King

25. “Don’t utilize utilize. Use use.”

— Larry King

26. “Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.”

— Larry King

27. “You know what amazes me about UFO’s? They never land at the White House. They always land at laramie, Wyoming. Thiry miles out, where they’re seen by one farmer.”

— Larry King

28. “I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.”

— Larry King

29. “The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.”

— Larry King

30. “Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.”

— Larry King

31. “Let’s not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.”

— Larry King

32. “Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.”

— Larry King

33. “People would pay money to work at CNN.”

— Larry King

34. “When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you’re up against strong competition.”

— Larry King

35. “If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.”

— Larry King

36. “One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a “frank” discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.”

— Larry King

37. “Successful people who cannot express themselves well? I can’t think of one.”

— Larry King

38. “Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.”

— Larry King

39. “I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They’d say, What, are you crazy? What, you’re going to be Arthur Godfrey?”

— Larry King

40. “Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack’s sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two.”

— Larry King

41. “If you look at the media now all of the hosts of these other shows are interviewing themselves. The guests are a prop for the hosts on these cable networks. The guests for me are always the paramount.”

— Larry King

42. “I’m having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun.”

— Larry King

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43. “The best conversationalists are curious about everything. That’s why they are good at listening and why they have broad horizons – they’re always learning something new.”

— Larry King