Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook quotes
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“Business is more exciting than any game.”
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“On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.”
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“I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.”
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“Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.”
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“Business is the most exciting game.”
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“Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.”
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“The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.”
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“What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.”
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“Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.”
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“Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.”
-- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
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