Howard Hughes famous quotes

03-28-2025

Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.
-- Howard Hughes

#Men #Guy
I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.
-- Howard Hughes

#Millionaire #Paranoid #Deranged
Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.
-- Howard Hughes

#Ideas #Impossible #Quiet
Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live?
-- Howard Hughes

#Crazy #Passion #Way
If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.
-- Howard Hughes

#Mistake #Design #Pay
Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.
-- Howard Hughes

#Flying #Mind #Would Be
The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.
-- Howard Hughes

#Sweat
I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.
-- Howard Hughes

#Men #Hollywood #World
I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.
-- Howard Hughes

#Want #Aviation #Contribution
Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.
-- Howard Hughes

#Play #Action
Money can't buy happiness.
-- Howard Hughes
The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.
-- Howard Hughes

#Brain #Evolution #Rapids
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
-- Howard Hughes

#Soccer #Way #Consent
I am determined to elect a president of our choosing this year and one who will be deeply indebted, and who will recognize his indebtedness. Since I am willing to go beyond all limitations on this, I think we should be able to select a candidate and a party who knows the facts of political life....If we select Nixon, then he, I know for sure knows the facts of life.
-- Howard Hughes

#Party #Thinking #Years
I intend to be, the richest man in the world.
-- Howard Hughes

#Positive Thinking #Men #Thinking
We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.
-- Howard Hughes

#Use #Want #Monopoly
Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.
-- Howard Hughes

#Bars #Four #Soap
My father told me, never have partners.
-- Howard Hughes

#Father #Partners
One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.
-- Howard Hughes

#Numbers #Anxiety #Development

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