Samuel B. Pettengill quotes

“The successful producer of an article sells it for more than it cost him to make, and that's his profit. But the customer buys it only because it is worth more to him than he pays for it, and that's his profit. No one can long make a profit producing anything unless the customer makes a profit using it.”
-- Samuel B. Pettengill

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“War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.”
-- Samuel B. Pettengill

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“I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all the savings of labor-saving machinery and invention, rather than siphon them off into the pools of watered securities, it will by that process keep distribution and production in balance and go as far toward Utopia as our poor human natures will go or be driven.”
-- Samuel B. Pettengill

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“The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.”

“A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.”

“Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.”

“People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.”

“I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.”

“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.”

“To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.”

“So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.”

“Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.”