Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Carl G. Fisher

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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Carl G. Fisher

Carl Graham Fisher was an American entrepreneur. He was an important figure in the automotive industry, in highway construction, and in real estate development. Some regard him as a promotional genius. Others regard him as a bootlegger and racial separatist, using divisive and speculative ideas to develop real estate.

January 12, 1874 - July 15, 1939
The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future generations can point with pride - an economic but also artistic triumph. (1914)
The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete. — © Carl G. Fisher
The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll agree that it is high time to agitate less and build more. [Here is] a plan whereby the automobile industry of America can build a magnificent "Appian Way" from New York to San Francisco, having it completed by May 1, 1915 and present it to the people of the United States.
We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building of enduring highways everywhere that will not only be a credit to the American people but that will also mean much to American agriculture and American commerce.
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