Julius Rosenwald Quotes

#1. It was no mystery why Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold had singled me out as a prime prospect for their heinous crime. My grandfather, Julius Rosenwald, was the chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck and Co. His prominence made me an ideal choice.

Armand Deutsch

#2. Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

Julius Rosenwald

#3. I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

Robert Fulghum

#4. I can testify that it is nearly always easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely.

Julius Rosenwald

#5. But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

Stephen Greenblatt

#6. You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.

Steve Zahn

#7. It doesn't have to be that bad,' Chade said quietly. 'Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Robin Hobb

#8. I realized that the job of a hero is not to save the galaxy, or rescue princesses, or slay all the dragons. That may be part of it, but in the end, a hero only has one job, and that's to make himself unnecessary.

Yahtzee Croshaw

#9. Rich men are neither better nor worse than all other humans. They contribute to greatness or mediocrity, strength of character or weakness in exactly the same proportion as persons in all other walks of life do.

Julius Rosenwald

#10. All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

Julius Rosenwald

#11. I have a mental illness, but that doesn't stop me from being mentally capable.

Lisa M. Cronkhite

#12. Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

#13. We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.

Paul Krugman

#14. I never could understand the popular belief that because a man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains. Some very rich men who made their fortunes have been among the stupidest men I have ever met.

Julius Rosenwald

#15. Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.

Julius Rosenwald