George M. Humphrey famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.
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I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.
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You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
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I don't think you can spend yourself rich.
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The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.
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I think things that contribute to the destruction of our free-incentive system are wrong. A trend against that free-incentive system is wrong, and should only be temporarily engaged in, in the event that war or something of that kind requires it. Otherwise, it should be reduced.
-- George M. Humphrey
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Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
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Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
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Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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From 1949 to the present, for every dollar the US spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for every dollar it spent on someone from the Western Hemisphere outside the US, it spent $214 on an Israeli.
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