Owen D. Young Quotes

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• What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a…
• We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is…
• Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no…
• Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long…
• The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
• The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what…
• Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
• When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
• I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
• It takes vision and courage to create
• It takes visions and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to prove.

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