Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by James Rouse

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman James Rouse.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

James Wilson Rouse was an American businessman and founder of The Rouse Company. Rouse was a pioneering American real estate developer, urban planner, civic activist, and later, free enterprise-based philanthropist. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award, for his lifetime achievements.

American - Businessman | April 26, 1914 - April 9, 1996

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Cities must be fun.

James Rouse

Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.

James Rouse

Whatever ought to be, can be.

James Rouse

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

James Rouse

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.

James Rouse

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

James Rouse

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by James Rouse

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