A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.
I was already on pole then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else including my team mate with the same car.
Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.
It seems to me I spent my life in car pools but you know that's how I kept track of what was going on.
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast and stick it out the window.
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.
I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.
Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later any idiot probably is going to run it.
In the music business especially the country music business every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard this wave of new artists that comes in.
If you say 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it ' well then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record I'm just going to cut the things that I like and whoever likes it likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.
If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason which is their business. That's just the way the world is.
They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.