Henry J. Kaiser Quotes
11 quotes from Henry J. Kaiser — Industrialist who built Liberty ships during WWII, founded Kaiser Permanente (healthcare), and Kaiser Aluminum..
“Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition — in having put forth the best within you.”
“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”
“I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.”
“If I don't dream I'll make it, I won't even get close.”
“He was successful because he was ignorant — he never knew what he couldn't do.”
“If we can build ships, and planes, and tanks, and guns, and bullets to protect our national security, can we not build hospitals and clinics to protect the lives of our people?”
“I'm a builder, and if you call yourself a builder, you ought to be able to build anything.”
“Ironical as it must appear, the war has taught us to employ our vast resources and to multiply them a million-fold by power and the machine. If we rebuild a world of monopoly and special privilege, we will taste a defeat as bitter as a victory for the Axis powers.”
“On this one fact, there is unanimous agreement: every man in the American Forces has the right to come home not only to a job but to peace. Anything less would be a denial of the true American way of life.”
“You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.”
“Why those dirty pups, they did it without me.”
