Howard Hughes

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My father told me, never have partners.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Business
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Money can't buy happiness.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Happiness
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Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.
- Howard Hughes
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I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.
- Howard Hughes
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Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
- Howard Hughes
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The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing.
- Howard Hughes
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Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.
- Howard Hughes
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Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.
- Howard Hughes
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We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.
- Howard Hughes
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Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live?
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Crazy
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Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Ideas
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I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Men
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I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Want
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I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Mistake
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If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Mistake
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The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Brain
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Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Decision
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Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Flying
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I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Country
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A million dollars isn't what it used to be.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Dollars
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I am determined to elect a president of our choosing this year and one who will be deeply indebted, and who will recognize his indebtedness. Since I am willing to go beyond all limitations on this, I think we should be able to select a candidate and a party who knows the facts of political life....If we select Nixon, then he, I know for sure knows the facts of life.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Party
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I intend to be, the richest man in the world.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Positive Thinking
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One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: Small Numbers
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I wanted to see New York . . . so I tried to see how fast I could do it in.
- Howard Hughes
Collection: New York