Wrigley Quotes

#1. Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.

Charlie Munger

#2. By 1968, I had lived 10 years in Michigan. Gradually, I had come to love watching Detroit's baseball club in its small, beautiful, antiquated Tiger Stadium - a baseball park as fine as Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, though it never got the adulatory press.

Donald Hall

#3. Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.

Ernie Banks

#4. He delivered his hand to my ass, so I delivered my knee to his balls.
Nina Wrigley

Lynn Weingarten

#5. I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.

Ernie Banks

#6. I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.

Jack Brickhouse

#7. I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

Billy Corgan

#8. To get a clearer idea of the other half, allow me to paint a picture for you. Imagine, if you will, nothing. Now imagine that it's endless. Now triple that. This is a perfect description of the United States between the Denver International Airport and approximately Wrigley Field.

Doug DeMuro

#9. The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues. The first day I walked into Wrigley Field was one of the best days of my life. And I owe them an awful lot.

Bruce Sutter

#10. I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.

Gary Carter

#11. I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

Bea Arthur

#12. I look for businesses in which I think I can predict what they're going to look like in ten to fifteen years time. Take Wrigley's chewing gum. I don't think the internet is going to change how people chew gum.

Warren Buffett

#13. The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint.

Harper Lee

#14. the first retail bar code scanner was used in 1974 to scan a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum in a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. But

John Kounios

#15. Is Coors Field a good park to hit in? Yeah. So are Wrigley Field and Camden Yards. I didn't design Coors Field-I just play there.

Todd Helton

#16. When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.

Pat Gillick

#17. Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.

Warren Buffett

#18. I've always thought of myself as an Expo. I probably had better seasons with the Cubs. The fan base and the bleacher bums at Wrigley Field were so enthusiastic compared to later years with the Expos.

Andre Dawson

#19. Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

Philip K. Wrigley

#20. Success is not easy. But it is worth the price.

William Wrigley Jr.

#21. I market for the same reason a pilot keeps his engines running once he is off the ground.

William Wrigley Jr.

#22. An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it.

William Wrigley Jr.

#23. The world, moment by ordinary or agonizing moment, lies chock-full with its own clarifications and rewards. That such rewards most often go unnoticed keeps the artist in business.

Robert Wrigley

#24. A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

William Wrigley Jr.

#25. Nothing is so much fun as business. I do not expect to do anything but work as long as I can stand up.

William Wrigley Jr.

#26. A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.

William Wrigley Jr.

#27. Make a Fair Product for a Fair Price, then Tell the World.

William Wrigley Jr.

#28. She was mined for the children
in her, one daughter, then another,
a short seam, quick to clay,
and not a single son to save them.

Robert Wrigley

#29. Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.

William Wrigley Jr.

#30. Excellent value relative to the week investment of time ... To my mind, this is the definitive course on leadership.

William Wrigley Jr.

#31. Life and business are rather simple after all-to make a success of either, you've got to hang on to the knack of putting yourself into the other person's place.

William Wrigley Jr.