“more on the professional than the amateur.”
Bill Valentine
“Practice makes perfect, when perfect, practice makes money.”
Richard 'Grimesy' Grimes
“If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.”
Red Adair
“Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs the ark”
Frank Pepper
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
Richard Bach
“Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.”
Marshall McLuhan
“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.”
Alan Greenspan
