Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

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William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC, ONB, generally known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century. His base of power was the largest circulation newspaper in the world, the Daily Express, which appealed to the conservative working class with intensely patriotic news and editorials. During the Second World War, he played a major role in mobilising industrial resources as Winston Churchill's Minister of Aircraft Production.

British - Politician | May 25, 1879 - June 9, 1964

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What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Business is more exciting than any game.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

Business is the most exciting game.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook