Industrialist

🇫🇷Jean-Baptiste Say

Business

1767–1832

"Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins."

🇨🇦Maurice Strong

Politics

1929–2015

"Our concepts of ballot-box democracy may need to be modified to produce strong governments capable of making difficult decisions."

🇳🇬Aliko Dangote

Politics

b. 1957

"In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it."

Ernest Solvay

Business

1838–1922

"The man of the future will be dedicated to individualism."

Tomáš Baťa

Business

1876–1932

"Financial recovery must be preceded by moral recovery."

🇺🇸J. Paul Getty

Business

1892–1976

"The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."

🇺🇸Henry Ford II

Business

1917–1987

"Airbags are a lot of baloney, no matter what Allstate says or no matter what the DOT says."

🇸🇪Alfred Nobel

Science

1833–1896

"We build upon the sand, and the older we become, the more unstable this foundation becomes."

🇮🇹Ferruccio Lamborghini

Sports

1916–1993

"A normal chap, a man who likes creating things. A good worker in the morning, and a man who likes enjoying himself in the afternoon."

🇺🇸Henry J. Kaiser

Business

1882–1967

"Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition — in having to put forth the best within you."