Famous quotes containing the words general, investment and/or authority:
“When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole countrys ready to let go. You heard of that market crash in 29? I predicted that.... I was nursing a director of General Motors. Kidney ailment, they said; nerves, I said. Then I asked myself, Whats General Motors got to be nervous about? Overproduction, I says. Collapse.”
—John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)
“The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that citys whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Women who assume authority are unnatural. Unnatural women are lesbians. Therefore all the leaders of the womens movement were presumed to be lesbians.”
—Jane OReilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 8 (1980)