A biography for Owen D. Younghasn’t been written yet.
“The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.”
“Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.”
“It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.”
“When boasting ends, there dignity begins.”
“The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.”
“It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.”