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Charles E. Wilson Quotes

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

Charles E. Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: November 18, 1886 - January 3, 1972

Topics

Experience Competition I Am Memory

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

Job Professional Place First Kid

'Snow White and the Huntsman' was - I came in before they started shooting and basically worked on Charlize Theron's character for the most part. I guess I probably worked four or five weeks on that one and stayed during production a little bit with them.

John Lee Hancock

Snow Character White Shooting Little

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

Elephant Where Drown Would Lamb

I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night.

Opportunity Myself Sleep Night Give

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Vietnam Terrible Been Chinese Camps

Honestly, without art and dance, I think I would be a very safe, black-and-white thinker. I wouldn't dare to take any risks or see so much of the world in myself and other people!

Art Myself Dance Risks People World

That's the thing I'm worst at: resting. I have to be forced to do it. Sometimes I think of loopholes. 'Oh, I'm just going for a walk, up a dune that's 45 degrees, but I'm walking, so it's not a workout.'

Walk Think Walking Sometimes Resting

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

Women Business Time Men People Long

I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

Confidence Challenge Yourself Grow

When I was little, my father was one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Suddenly - and how it happened to him was always a great mystery to me - he wasn't a star anymore; he was on the fringe. From the time I was 14, I was always conscious of a sense of worry, of terrific insecurity - agents, phony talk, the waits for the phone to ring.

Father Great Time Me Insecurity

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that.

Best World Proud Golf Everyone Very

I'm never going to get in a fight in public again.

Fight Never Going Get Again Public

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