James J. Hill famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.
-- James J. Hill

#Country #Credit #Wealth
Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.
-- James J. Hill

#Adventure #Men #Funny Travel
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.
-- James J. Hill

#Wealth #Reviews #Trade
The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental.
-- James J. Hill

#Males #Passengers #Train
Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.
-- James J. Hill

#Giving #Railroads #Snuff
Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work.
-- James J. Hill

#Hard Work #Intelligent
If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or a failure in life, you can easily find out. The test is simple and it is infallible: Are you able to save money? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may think not, but you will lose as sure as you live. The seed of success is not in you.
-- James J. Hill

#Simple #Thinking #May

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.
Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.
You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.
Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.
Some of you may remember me as the 'Doritos Girl' from that Super Bowl commercial a while back, but I've been lucky enough to have gotten a few more credits under my belt since then!
Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

James J. Hill famous quotes

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