Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Daniel Burnham

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American architect Daniel Burnham.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Daniel Hudson Burnham was an American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the Beaux-Arts movement, he may have been, "the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ever produced."

American - Architect | September 4, 1846 - June 1, 1912

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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

Daniel Burnham

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Daniel Burnham

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

Daniel Burnham

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Daniel Burnham

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

Daniel Burnham

Scuttle no small plans. They have no magic to stir single issue individuals into a group of people against everything.

Daniel Burnham

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Daniel Burnham

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

Daniel Burnham

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

Daniel Burnham

The only way to handle big business is to delegate, delegate, delegate.

Daniel Burnham

A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die.

Daniel Burnham