King C. Gillette quotes

“A common greeting was 'Well, Gillette, how's the razor?' If I had been technically trained, I would have quit.”
-- King C. Gillette

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“A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached.”
-- King C. Gillette

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“There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.”
-- King C. Gillette

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“We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.”

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“We are all of us walking a razor's edge between darkness and light,”

“because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.”

“Anti-Semitism is extremely common.”

“We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.”

“Our future is our sense of common destiny.”

Source : "We in Turkey and the Middle East have replaced humiliation with dignity" by Ahmet Davutoglu, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2011.

“Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.”

“Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.”

“My goal is to never quit.”

“If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.”

Source : Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.237, Cinco Puntos Press