Will Rogers Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Government

• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

• I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Ideas

• Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Running, Government

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.92, Rowman & Littlefield

• We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Winning, Men

• The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President

  Will Rogers

  Running, Party, Political

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.151, Rowman & Littlefield

• You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done.... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Running, Causes

  Will Rogers (1927). “There's Not a Bathing Suit in Russia: & Other Bare Facts”, New York, A. & C. Boni

• You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Party, Good Friend

  'The Illiterate Digest' (1924) 'Breaking into the Writing Game'

• Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Rivers

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield

• You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Years

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

• On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Government, Years

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

• If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Wall, Government

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Opportunity, Doors

• Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Office

• In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Political

• I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Country, Travel

• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.

  Will Rogers

  Mother, Running, Father

• Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Art, Hurt

• The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Horse, Modern Life

• I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Class

  Will Rogers (1977). “Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

• Legalize racing in every State. Sure people will bet, but they get to see the horses run and you certain can't see General Motors and General Electric and General Utility run when you bet on them.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Horse, People

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

• The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Men

• Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Home

• Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Talking

• In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Overcoming

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