Quotes from 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Business is the most exciting game.