J.P. Stiles quotes

View Quote My pa was a farmer, and I know what it's like to work the land until your hands are blistered and raw. Hoping the weather won't turn bad, praying the crop will come in, hanging on when it don't. Oh, yeah. I know what it's like to be a farmer. And I got out, hallelujah!

View Quote Paradise Valley. My idea of Heaven. Iron, coal, oil, copper. Riches beyond the imagination, just waiting for a few rugged individuals with the vision, the strength and the means to make their dreams come true. Gentlemen, we stand on the edge of history.

View Quote Hackett's farm, right smack in the middle of everything. Without that deed, I won't have a bucket to spit in.

View Quote Son, your pa's a fool. He's stuck in the past and he wants you stuck there with him. But that ain't what you want, is it? You don't want to waste your life behind a plow. You want more than that. You hate that farm! It ain't nothing but a dried up, miserable piece of ground.

View Quote Early to bed, early to rise. Makes a boy healthy, wealthy, and alive.

View Quote You don't stop progress, cowboy. That's the difference between me and you. I can adjust to the times. You can't.

View Quote You fool! There'll be others just like me, and more after them and after them. Long as there's a profit to be made, we'll never stop. We're comin'!