Eric Johnston
Eric Johnston
Eric Allen Johnstonwas a business owner, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, a Republican Party activist, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, and a U.S. government special projects administrator and envoy for both Democratic and Republican administrations. As president of the MPAA, he abbreviated the organization's name, convened the closed-door meeting of motion picture company executives at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel that led to Waldorf Statement in 1947 and the Hollywood blacklist, and discreetly liberalized...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth21 December 1896
CountryUnited States of America
If the power goes out, business stops ... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.
If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or youre a big manufacturer.
Both Georges were not thugs. I know the difference and I know guys that have been in a tow truck that are bikers but they're thugs. They'll do stupid things, they'll insult people, they'll intimidate people at wrecks. . . . These guys weren't like that.
The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.
What I can see here is that I think our quality (of racing) will go up, ... We usually get a lot of Louisiana horsemen anyway. The wild card is what will happen with the Louisiana-bred money.
We're still excited. We still have a great field.
And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.
Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.
Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.
The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.
The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.
Beaten paths are for beaten men.