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 salvation for us on that road.
—Owen D. Young
Topics: Achievements
Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.
—Owen D. Young
Topics: Faith
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 to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.
—Owen D. Young
Topics: Thrift
I resent at any time or any place the attitude that the safety of this country depends on any man holding his job. No man has achieved that strength, and this country has not deteriorated to that weakness.
—Owen D. Young
Topics: Government, Politics
We wake up to find the whole world building competitive trade barriers, just as we found it a few years ago building competitive armaments. We are trying to reduce armaments to preserve the world’s solvency. We shall have to reduce competitive trade barriers to preserve the world’s sanity. As between the two, trade barriers are more destructive than armaments and more threatening to the peace of the world.
—Owen D. Young
Topics: War
It takes vision and courage to create; it takes faith and courage to prove.
—Owen D. Young
Topics: Bravery, Success, Courage
The person who builds a character makes foes.
—Owen D. Young
Topics: Enemies
Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
—Owen D. Young
Topics: Business
Unlearned men of books are like the eunuchs who are guardians of the beautiful.
—Owen D. Young
Topics: Learning
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 program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.
—Owen D. Young
Topics: Heart
The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.
—Owen D. Young
Topics: Morality
The person of wisdom is the person of years.
—Owen D. Young
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.
—Owen D. Young
Topics: Business
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