Cullen Hightower

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

— Cullen Hightower

We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.

— Cullen Hightower

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions..

— Cullen Hightower

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

— Cullen Hightower

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

— Cullen Hightower

We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.

— Cullen Hightower

It's hard to see a halo when you're looking for horns.

— Cullen Hightower

Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.

— Cullen Hightower

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

— Cullen Hightower

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

— Cullen Hightower

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

— Cullen Hightower

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

— Cullen Hightower

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

— Cullen Hightower

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy…

— Cullen Hightower

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

— Cullen Hightower

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.

— Cullen Hightower

A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the…

— Cullen Hightower

Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe.

— Cullen Hightower

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

— Cullen Hightower

Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.

— Cullen Hightower

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

— Cullen Hightower

Strangers are what friends are made of.

— Cullen Hightower

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance

— Cullen Hightower

Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.

— Cullen Hightower

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own

— Cullen Hightower

Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the…

— Cullen Hightower

The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.

— Cullen Hightower

Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

— Cullen Hightower

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

— Cullen Hightower

If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.

— Cullen Hightower

Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.

— Cullen Hightower

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

— Cullen Hightower

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

— Cullen Hightower

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

— Cullen Hightower

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

— Cullen Hightower

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

— Cullen Hightower

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

— Cullen Hightower

When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.

— Cullen Hightower

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

— Cullen Hightower

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

— Cullen Hightower