Lewis E. Platt quotes

Lewis E. Platt quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Whatever made you successful in the past won't in future.”
-- Lewis E. Platt

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“The real secret is to build an organization that isn't afraid to make changes while it is still successful, before change becomes imperative for survival.”
-- Lewis E. Platt

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“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”
“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
“The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.”
“A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.”
“I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.”
“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.”
“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”
“I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...”
“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
“So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.”

Source : "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.

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