Do You Have Any Principles?
“It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.” Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s
Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category
Luck
Samuel Goldwyn (July 1882 – 31 January 1974) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning producer, also a well-known Hollywood motion picture producer and founding contributor of several motion picture studios. The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Invention
Thorstein Veblen (July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a founder, along with John R. Commons, of the Institutional economics movement. Despite the fact that he lived about 100 years ago, Veblen’s work remains relevant today, and not simply for his phrase “conspicuous consumption.” His evolutionary approach to [...]
Success Equals …
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist, probably the best known scientist of all time in terms of name recognition. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2. This quote from Albert is probably not one of his best known, but it is a good one. If [...]
Getting Rich should not be the Ultimate Goal
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. Rockefeller had always believed since he was a child that his purpose in life was to make as much money as possible, and then use it [...]
Talent, not Friends
Henry Ford. Now that’s a name I should not have to introduce. Rather than quote Henry on a car topic (like the any colour as long as it is black) I have an HR type quote. It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire the man, [...]
Soichiro Honda
Soichiro Honda, 1906-1991, founded the Honda Motor Company in 1948. Before that he spent 6 years working as a car mechanic, learning the trade, and then 20 years running his own auto repair business. Honda turned his company into a billion-dollar multinational that produced the best-selling motorcycles in the world, even out-selling Triumph and Harley-Davidson [...]
