Donald Whitfield Quotes

Selling an experience is an infinite resource that costs nothing to create because it already exists.

We’re not subject to our deeds. We decide the deeds, and our decisions become the truth.[to Banner]

Vengeance will never make you money. You must set a goal, then formulate a plan to achieve it. Then you execute it without mercy.

True wealth is generational. I could never spend all the money I’ve made. What I do now ensures that my great-grandchildren can’t either. If you think about it, generational wealth is the closest thing a man can have to immortality. When a building has your name on it, that’s immortality.[to Banner]

Killing a king doesn’t make you a king. It makes you an assassin.[to Banner]

It’s a rich man’s world now. And everyone gets a taste. The paper man, the tradesman, the car salesman, the doctor, the lawyer. The one thing you cannot buy in a store is the euphoria of peril, the exhilaration of danger.[to Banner]

In the country, you survive your surroundings, or try to, anyway. It’s the most a man can muster when he abandons civilization. Cities are the mastery one’s surroundings. Necessities become comforts. In the wild, the availability of water dictates whether you survived the day. In the city, that most precious of resources, becomes an afterthought.[to Banner]

I’m a businessman. The word “decent” doesn’t apply to me.

History isn’t a retelling of events in our past. History is events the victorious chose to retell.

Cities give one culture, convenience, but they rob man of the thing that makes him man: his insatiable, inexplicable need to traverse untamed land. Battle its monsters, overcome its mountains.