Stephen King Quotes

18 quotes from Stephen King on investing, entrepreneurship and motivation.

On investing

• If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

• He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands.

On entrepreneurship

• Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.

• A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

• Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

On motivation

• A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

• Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.

• Quiet people have the loudest minds.

• Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

• He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

• Frightened people live in their own special hell.

• Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.

• Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

• To write is human, to edit is divine.

• FEAR stands for face everything and recover - Old AA saying.

• A change is as good as a rest.

• Come on, Doctor... we got places to go.

• If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.