Frank A. Vanderlip Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and effort would be wasted. If it were to be exposed that our particular group had got together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress.”
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“I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.”
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“The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time.”
-- Frank A. VanderlipSource : "From Farm Boy to Financier". Book by Frank Arthur Vanderlip, chapter 25, p. 257, 1935.
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“So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts”
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“The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.”
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“Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.”
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“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
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