Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook famous quotes

03-24-2025

Business is more exciting than any game.
-- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#Business #Games #Exciting
On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.
-- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#Rocks #Wave #Rage
I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.
-- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#Night #Goes On #Lasts
Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.
-- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#Mind #Desert #Might
Business is the most exciting game.
-- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#Games #Funny Business #Exciting
Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.
-- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#Art #Mistress #Fetch
The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.
-- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#Hate #Men #Hats
What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.
-- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#Depression #Wheels #Strange
Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.
-- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#Quality #Three #Judgment
Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.
-- Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#Boys #Men #Credit

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