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Martin Winterkorn Quotes

I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.

Martin Winterkorn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: german
Birth: May 24, 1947

Topics

Ambition Face Problem Entrepreneur

I was popular, and I enjoyed that, and my mother kept telling me I better take typing so I'd have something to fall back on. I didn't know what the future held, but once I got my law degree, I started to feel like, 'OK, I'm a serious person.'

Mother Future Me Law Better Feel

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

Childhood Man Youth Sometimes Never

My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.

Past Interesting Treasure Write Just

If it hadn't been for record people like Ralph Peer, the Chess brothers, and Alan Lomax, then life would've been unbelievably dull, and I would've been sacking groceries somewhere and probably, at this point, running a little 7-Eleven down by the airport.

Life People Down Chess Airport Peer

I don't worry when I go away for a while. I think there is a place for me. It may not be at the top of the heap. But that doesn't bother me, either. I think I will always be able to get work - which is the only thing I have ever really been interested in.

Mary Steenburgen

Work Me Think Worry Place Go

My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.

Today Childhood I Am Story Career

I can't write about people I don't feel some sort of connection to.

People Feel Connection Write Some

The very first time I got to drive by myself, I took a bunch of my friends to school and was caught by a motorcycle cop going 90 miles an hour on a back street.

Time Myself School Motorcycle Drive

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

Life I Am Real Everyone Real Life

'Driving while black' was taught to me at a young age.

Colson Whitehead

Age Me Black Driving Young Taught

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Bryant H. McGill

Intelligence Understanding Find Never

The cost of research, development and testing of a new drug is vastly greater than the cost of each dose produced. How should we pay for new medicines? Innovators should be rewarded according to the impact of their medicine, and people should contribute to these rewards according to their ability to pay.

People Research Medicine Impact New

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