Walter
Chrysler was an American automotive executive and the founder of Chrysler
Corporation. Chrysler went from being a machinist and railroad mechanic to
building one of the biggest automobile companies in the world.
He bought
Maxwell Motor Company which was later changed to Chrysler Corporation in 1925. In
1928, Chrysler Corp. purchased Dodge and Walter Chrysler was named Time
Magazine’s Man of the Year.
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| Walter Percy Chrysler Pic: britannica.com |
Here are some
of his quotes while he was alive:
“The real secret
of success is enthusiasm.”
“I like to
build things. I like to do things.”
“Success
comes through a judicious expenditure of energy.”
“To me
every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”
“When
railroad engineers come to a mountain they do not always go through it;
sometimes it is best to go around it.”
“I feel
sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about his work. Not only
will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.”
“The
Chrysler car? Nobody had heard about a Chrysler car. But we had dreamed about
it until, as if we had been its lovers, it was work to think of anything else.”
“In 1925,
the Maxwell Motor Corporation became the Chrysler Corporation.”
“I am
concerned first of all with executives, because if their principles are not
right it is useless to look for results from the men.”
“Whenever
there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an
easy way of doing it.”
“The
reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because, when opportunity
knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.”
“Every new
development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it
be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an
added use of the automobile.”
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Quotes for the Week: Walter Percy Chrysler (1875 - 1940)