I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it. Owen D. Young More Quotes by Owen D. Young More Quotes From Owen D. Young It takes vision and courage to create Owen D. Young vision success Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road. Owen D. Young achievement salvation wages The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him. Owen D. Young mind worry men What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides. Owen D. Young heart new-day moving It takes visions and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to prove. Owen D. Young vision belief courage The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living. Owen D. Young business opportunity men We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end. Owen D. Young judging wise two When boasting ends, there dignity begins. Owen D. Young boast dignity ends We wake up to find the whole world building competitive trade barriers, just as we found it a few years ago building competitive armaments. We are trying to reduce armaments to preserve the world's solvency. We shall have to reduce competitive trade barriers to preserve the world's sanity. As between the two, trade barriers are more destructive than armaments and more threatening to the peace of the world. Owen D. Young trying two years Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long as we bask in their friendly smile. But it is a dangerous temptation. Today politics may be our friend and tomorrow we may be its victims. Owen D. Young government power mean Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction. Owen D. Young wells destruction emotion It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove. Owen D. Young prove vision faith courage It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. Owen D. Young know man business fear
