David Plowright quotes

“The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.”
-- David Plowright

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“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”

Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.

“If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.”

“Art is not the spiritual side of business.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.56, Univ of California Press

“Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide.”

Source : Song: Tell It Like It is, Album: The Very Best of Aaron Neville, 2006

“I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.”

“People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.”

Source : Interview with Rob Walker, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.

“We all work with one Infinite Power. We all guide ourselves by exactly the same laws.”

“As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.”

Source : Buffalo Bill (1939). “Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill."”, Ayer Company Pub

“Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.”

Source : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

“As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.”