quoted by Rick Orlov of the Los Angeles Daily News https://www.dailynews.com/2014/05/02/city-of-los-angeles-now-has-entrepreneurs-in-residence/ (May 2, 2014)
2014
“It is better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.”
Managing, Chapter Ten (Acquisitions and Growth), p. 158.
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American businessman 1910–1997Related quotes
“It is better to be making the news than taking it. ”
“It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.”
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter VIII.
Early career years (1898–1929)
Speech on May 1, 1937, quoted in John S. Conway, The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933-45 (New York, NY, Basic Books, 1968), p. 178
1930s
“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship”