Charles W. Eliot
Biography
Quotes
- All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
- When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.
- Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.
