Quotes by Robert Menzies

Robert Menzies

“I pay my taxes,” says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

Pay

Taxes

Virtue

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

Country

Men

Successful

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend, and may leave behind him an exhausted industry and a legacy of industrial hatred. A tough manager may never look outside his own factory walls or be conscious of his partnership in a wider world. I often wonder what strange cud such men sit chewing when their working days are over, and the accumulating riches of the mind have eluded them.

Business

Country

Wall

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

Lasts

May

Tough

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

Company

Considering

Surprising

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Art

Intelligent

People

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

Enough

Honest

Women

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

Love

Passing By

Passings

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

Contempt

Party

Remarkable

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

Hope

Truth

Wisdom

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Art

Believe

Blow

Britain

Bureaucrats

Business

Character

Cities

Class

Company

Considering

Contempt

Country

Democracy

East

Economist

Education

Effort

Enough

Example

Good Things

Great Britain

Honest

Hope

Important

Indifference

Intelligent

Lasts

Law

Leadership

Learning

Love

May

Men

Never Forget

New York

Opinion

Party

Passing By

Passings

Pay

People

Remarkable

Rights

Speak

Speech

Successful

Surprising

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Quotes by Robert Menzies

Robert Menzies

“I pay my taxes,” says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

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