Gordon Roddick > Quotes

“I shall say nothing
Of my insanity,
Which is that which
Keeps me sane.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out."
- Gilda Perilli
I cannot think of better advice for an entrepreneur.
Gordon Roddick, quoting his mother-in-law, Gilda Perilli.”
― Gordon Roddick

“It is equally important to grab and take hold of kindred spirits when you find them. They are few and far between, especially those who devote their lives to following their own scripts.”
― Gordon Roddick

“When you are lucky enough to have grandchildren, nothing is more important than love and laughter.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Wine is better than sex and lasts longer.”
― Gordon Roddick

“What a fucking tapestry woven by mad and sensitive egos; sometimes, the flatulence of words blows the intention out the window, but it is just a few steps backwards. I get so near to getting into detail about people and things, then like a pinball machine, my thoughts bang off sideways to some other peg and hang there for a nanosecond only to be tossed on somewhere else. Where is that still, quiet place of examination?”
― Gordon Roddick

“We did not know there were rules. We probably looked at the rules and decided they made no sense.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Saying nothing must be saying something.”
― Gordon Roddick

“It is as much about input – the conversation of imaginative men (women and children not excluded) has a rhythm, a phrase that follows a thought and precedes the development of further thought … try not to be a cunt.”
― Gordon Roddick

“To whom much is given, much is required.”
― Gordon Roddick

“If you want to be happy, try never to be negative. As a plan, it is unproductive and does not work.”
― Gordon Roddick

“We were not looking for change but the pathway to change.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Life is too short to drink cheap wine.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The lessons of creeping loss of control made us decide to go private again if possible.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Frame it up fact by fact. Build it up to show the injustice.”
― Gordon Roddick

“We see the Tsaatan encampment of tepees in the far distance, sitting in a vast treeless plain surrounded by rolling hills and backdropped by high snow-capped mountains. We pause for a while to take in this spectacle. It took my breath away, and for a moment, everything was gone except the here and now.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Resources should be the entitlement of all of us: health, education, housing, and the fair distribution of energy sources.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Be last at everything. Nobody will have any expectations.”
― Gordon Roddick

“The reversal of all my dreams, I had thought that travelling would change my outlook or make me a little more tolerant, but no, it has accentuated all my original hates and fears.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Just the feeling that emanated from her presence kept me happy – oh, what wind-blown passionate days those were; if we argued, we argued with equal intensity, as we loved, but it could never last the arguing; it was always destroyed by love.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I have always been inspired by those who have gone their own way, who have challenged orthodoxy and the status quo and sought to make a difference, right wrongs, and often put up with being unpopular for saying and doing what they think is right.”
― Gordon Roddick

“I don’t think that way.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Philosophy
Fat men run
With cake and bun.
I run thin,
Delights of sin.”
― Gordon Roddick

“In a gap
And quite by accident,
I found insanity.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Perpetual
uncertainty
and excitement,
except
the rate of
change – you could expect tomorrow
whatever you had done today.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Sometimes, silence drops around like an uninvited guest.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Ken Saro-Wiwa was one of the warmest and most courageous men I know.”
― Gordon Roddick

“What saved us once again was our willingness to recognise that we were wrong and our ability to move on to the next idea.”
― Gordon Roddick

“Friends who had anarchy in their souls were reckless only by calculation and separated from convention by their own desire.”
― Gordon Roddick

“It appears to me, and I hope to you too, that it's the wrong people feeling the pain.”
― Gordon Roddick