Julius Rosenwald famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.
-- Julius Rosenwald

#Careers #Worry #Mind
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
-- Julius Rosenwald

#Money #Smart #Believe
I never could understand the popular belief that because a man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains. Some very rich men who made their fortunes have been among the stupidest men I have ever met.
-- Julius Rosenwald

#Men #Brain #Belief
All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.
-- Julius Rosenwald

#Helping Others #Helping #Pleasure
I have always believed that most large fortunes are made by men...who tumbled into a lucky opportunity. Hard work and attention to business are necessary, but they rarely result in achieving a large fortune. Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich, he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
-- Julius Rosenwald

#Smart #Believe #Hard Work
Rich men are neither better nor worse than all other humans. They contribute to greatness or mediocrity, strength of character or weakness in exactly the same proportion as persons in all other walks of life do.
-- Julius Rosenwald

#Character #Greatness #Men
I can testify that it is nearly always easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely.
-- Julius Rosenwald

#Easier #Honestly #I Can
Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.
-- Julius Rosenwald

#Lines #Today #Benevolence

She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.
It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.
It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.
Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.
A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relaxâ€“and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Julius Rosenwald famous quotes

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