63 Quotes by Mike Klepper

People too often tolerate uncertainty prior to taking action; worse, some people believe that omniscience or infallibility are prerequisites for being certain, so they conclude that certainty (and therefore knowledge) is never possible. To any person who proclaims that "you can never be certain of anything", ask them: "are you sure?" and watch what happens.

If you can see something, and it is wrong, you can fight it with a reasonable chance of success. Fighting the nonexistent is worse than pointless: Don Quixote tilted at windmills, but at least windmills are real.

For the evil our government does, tinfoil hats are simply not required, and are indeed a detriment.

Everybody gets a participation trophy when equality of outcome replaces equality of opportunity.

Opportunities are taken or created, never given.

Never, ever, trust a man who is willing to die in glory but is unable to live with pride.

Achievement is only possible through rigorous standards; remove those standards, and significant accomplishments will not arise.

Victories are meaningless when the opposition is negligible and the cost of losing is nonexistent.

When people come to a conclusion that is contrary to popular opinion, there’s a calm resolution to them, for they are experiencing a short burst of pride. They have just captured an intellectual territory, and they will hold that territory.