Charles E. Wilson
Charles E. Wilson
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth18 November 1886
CountryUnited States of America
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I would have to be the repository of the corporate memory. I would have to make sure what we did the last three years is relevant to what we do in the next three years.
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In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.
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We have never gotten past this round in the playoffs, so the girls are taking this game very seriously. The girls want to get a win, and they will do whatever it takes to get it done.
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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
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No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
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The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.
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There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
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No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
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Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.
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But I have always liked bird dogs rather than kennel-fed dogs myself -- you know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.
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When the economy slows, people tend not to go on holiday, but they will spend more on small-ticket items like eating out.
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It is futile to talk too much about the past . . . like trying to make birth control retroactive.
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People in, say, Georgia aren't sitting on the front porches singing anymore. They're inside in the air-conditioning, watching cable like everybody else.
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We've been wearing sweaters and hats. We had plastic put over the windows outside too.