Business Quote by William N. Thorndike Jr

“Murphy was an optimist.”

— A.C. Flory

“It’s a lot easier to blow up trains than to make them run on time.”

— Max Brooks

“He managed the train line”

— Neil A. Hogan

“Faster than a Locomotive”

— Drooper

“But, truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.”

— Paul Theroux

“To the end of his life he enjoyed traveling by train, the slower the better, and, if possible, in the front carriage.”

— George Sayer

“Trains are beautiful. They take people to places they've never been, faster than they could ever go themselves. Everyone who works on trains knows…

— Sam Starbuck

“The train goes slowly. From time to time it stops, so that the dead can be taken off. It stops a lot.”

— Anonymous

“How could we have achieved the set-goal, without endurance to the end?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“train were harder than usual to ignore. They were”

— Michael Lewis

“Driving the train doesn't set its course. The real job is laying the track.”

— Ed Catmull

“What the railroads lack is not opportunity but some of the managerial imaginativeness and audacity that made them great.”

— Harvard Business School Press