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Inspirational Quotations

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Inspirational Quotes by Samuel Goldwyn (Polish-born American Film Producer)

Inspirational Quotations by Samuel Goldwyn (Polish-born American Film Producer)

Samuel Goldwyn (1879–1974) was a Polish-born American movie producer and Hollywood businessman. He was recognized worldwide as one of the most significant individuals in the history of the motion picture industry. He made such commercially successful films as Wuthering Heights (1939,) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946,) Guys and Dolls (1955,) and Porgy and Bess (1959.)

Born Schmuel Gelbfisz in Warsaw, he changed his name to Samuel Goldfish and then Goldwyn. Gelbfisz immigrated to America at the age of thirteen. He had some orthodox Jewish education in Poland, and one year of night school at the Gloversville Business College.

Goldwyn began his career as a glovemaker’s trainee and rose to become a salesperson. He got into the up-and-coming film business with his brother-in-law Jesse Lasky and director Cecil B. DeMille. Their first film, Squaw Man (1914,) was very successful, and numerous films followed.

In 1917, Goldwyn formed the Goldwyn Company with Edgar Selwyn and, in 1924, merged it with Louis B. Mayer’s Metro pictures to create the media conglomerate Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM.)

Goldwyn was a shrewd businessman and brought the best talents together in Hollywood. He discovered many stars, including Tallulah Bankhead, Robert Montgomery, Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Ronald Colman, Rudolph Valentino, and Eddie Cantor.

Goldwyn is also famous for introducing Goldwynisms—catchphrases such as “Include me out” and “A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on” to the English language.

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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
—Samuel Goldwyn

Too caustic? To hell with the cost. If it’s a good picture, we’ll make it anyway.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Acting

If I could drop dead right now, I’d be the happiest man alive.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Happiness

I hate a man who always says “yes” to me. When I say “no” I like a man who also says “no.”
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Hollywood

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Jobs, Truth

The harder I work, the luckier I get.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Luck, Work

Include me out.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Unity

Don’t pay any attention to the critics. Don’t even ignore them.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Courage, Attention, Criticism, Critics

You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Pessimism

God makes stars. I just produce them.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Fame, Stars

If you can fake sincerity, you’ve got it made.
—Samuel Goldwyn

The most important thing in acting is honesty. Once you’ve learned to fake that, you’re in.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Acting

I don’t want any yes-men” around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.”
—Samuel Goldwyn

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Opportunities, Attitude, Luck, Opportunity

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Television

That’s the kind of ad I like: facts, facts, facts.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Facts, Advertising

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Ideas

Television has raised writing to a new low.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Television

A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Agreement

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Thoughts, Thought, Thinking

If I look confused it’s because I’m thinking.
—Samuel Goldwyn

A Hospital is no place to be sick.
—Samuel Goldwyn

I’ll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Loyalty

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
—Samuel Goldwyn

I read part of it all the way through.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Books, Reading

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
—Samuel Goldwyn

That’s the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Ingratitude, Gratitude

I don’t think anybody should write his autobiography until after he’s dead.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Legacy, Books, Autobiography

You’ve got to take the bull between your teeth.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Difficulties

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
—Samuel Goldwyn
Topics: Success, Success & Failure

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