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Alan Alda

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Not every great thinker makes it into the history books, but Alan Alda's words speak for themselves. Alan Alda's observations on Change are as sharp as their thoughts on Business, revealing genuine breadth of mind. Browse 12 quotes by Alan Alda that cover ground from Change, Business, Work, Money, and Knowledge. Perhaps their most recognizable line: "Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you."

“If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.”

— Alan Alda

Money

All Quotes by Alan Alda

“I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.”

— Alan Alda

Business

“If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.”

— Alan Alda

Money

“I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.”

— Alan Alda

Change

“You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.”

— Alan Alda

Work

“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.”

— Alan Alda

Intelligence

“Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.”

— Alan Alda

Change

“Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.”

— Alan Alda

Age

“I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.”

— Alan Alda

Anger

“You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.”

— Alan Alda

Business

“It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.”

— Alan Alda

Famous

“I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.”

— Alan Alda

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