Top 30 Max Aitken Quotes

#1. Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

Max Aitken

#2. When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.

Quincy Jones

#3. His life as he knew it was over.

Julia Quinn

#4. I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.

Max Aitken

#5. Business is more exciting than any game.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#6. There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it's called 'fan fiction'.

Joss Whedon

#7. Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory.

Alex Webb

#8. Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#9. I go and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.

William Shakespeare

#10. When I applied for a handicap parking pass, they wouldn't take maleness as a medical condition.

Katie Graykowski

#11. Business is the most exciting game.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#12. Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#13. God generally finds a way for like to meet like.

Publilius Syrus

#14. I consider myself just as normal as anybody else.

Brody Jenner

#15. Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#16. A one-eyed man with a knife in hand, looking for someone else's eye to poke out.

Veronica Roth

#17. On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#18. Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

Bill Watterson

#19. Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#20. What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#21. Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#22. Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.

Isaac Marion

#23. A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.

Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

#24. Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself.

Deepak Chopra

#25. If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

H.G.Wells

#26. The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#27. Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#28. The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

Max Aitken

#29. Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Max Aitken

#30. When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.

Michael Richards

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