Owen D. Young
Owen D. Young
Owen Daniel Youngwas an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conferencein 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth27 October 1874
CountryUnited States of America
courage create faith takes
It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
business crook fear man modern
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
success vision
It takes vision and courage to create
achievement wages salvation
Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road.
dignity ends boast
When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
years two trying
We wake up to find the whole world building competitive trade barriers, just as we found it a few years ago building competitive armaments. We are trying to reduce armaments to preserve the world's solvency. We shall have to reduce competitive trade barriers to preserve the world's sanity. As between the two, trade barriers are more destructive than armaments and more threatening to the peace of the world.
opportunity men world
The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
wise two judging
We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.
moving heart new-day
What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.