"The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked a lot like JDR's oil refineries thirty years later."

--

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

Charles R. Morris

#Years Quotes #Iron Quotes #Oil Quotes

“Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.”
“My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventionsâ€¦. The dove is my emblemâ€¦. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy itâ€¦. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to killâ€¦.”
“And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.”
“It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.”

Source : "Wealth Not Trickling Up House's Leadership Ladder". www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2000.
“Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.”
“You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you. I've realized that more than ever lately. The other day, I was on my way to the car. It was hailing, the streets were slippery and I was having a tough time of it. I came to a corner and started to slip. But before I could fall, four people jumped out of nowhere to help me. When I thanked them, they all said they knew about my illness and had been keeping an eye on me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.”
“The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.”

You may also like:

Charles Ferguson
Director
Daniel Yergin
Author
Frank Partnoy
Scholar
J. P. Morgan
Financier
Jay Gould
John D. Rockefeller
Business person
Mark Zandi
Matt Damon
Actor
Norman Doidge
Psychiatrist