H.W. Brands Quotes

A live-in domestic worker: "You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

This senate was a place where good Representatives went when they died. Thomas Reed

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

His charm was not electric, but it was enveloping.

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.

A young mark twain on the make: "I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.

He made his character his platform.

I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

His was a quiet but persistent charisma.

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters.

Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the natives. Andrew Carnegie

He forced himself into good spirits.

John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.

In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to.

I travel the world. I Take nothing but pictures, kill nothing but time and leave nothing but footprints.

Online personal branding is not about self-promotion... it's about transferring your real world reputation into the online world.

Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams.

Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin

Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.

Diplomacy was a long game.

One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

Chinese immigrant: "Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.

Reagan is described as "delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.

Theodore Roosevelt came to Dekota to experience the dying of one age with the slaying of a rare buffalo and the dawning of the West's industrial age.

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.

Teain had no difficulty generating the indignation of a satirist. He lack the patience of a reformer.

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed

The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home.

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson