Milton Snavely Hershey Quotes
101 Milton Snavely Hershey Quotes
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I’ll stake everything on chocolate.
Milton Snavely Hershey
Caramels are just a fad. The chocolate market will be a permanent one.
Milton Snavely Hershey
I started with ambition and intention of making the best chocolate that money or skill could make, regardless of the cost of manufacture.
Milton Snavely Hershey
Give them quality. That’s the best advertising in the world.
Milton Snavely Hershey
Take a man of fair intelligence, give him a fair chance, and he will soon learn to do anything that any other intelligent man is doing.
Milton Snavely Hershey
My best advice to you is - when you tackle a job stick to it until you have mastered it.
Milton Snavely Hershey
You can only make money by giving people what they want…
Milton Snavely Hershey
If I rest, I’ll rust.
Milton Snavely Hershey
My success is the result of not being satisfied with mediocrity, and in making the most of my opportunities.
Milton Snavely Hershey
Business is a matter of human service.
Milton Snavely Hershey
A man can learn from the other fellow, providing he keeps his mind and eyes open.
Milton Snavely Hershey
Boys, don’t rock the boat, row it.
Milton Snavely Hershey
You can’t keep the corners brushed up if you don’t keep after them with a broom.
Milton Snavely Hershey
If I can make money for my employer, why can’t I do just as well for myself?
Milton Snavely Hershey
I’m not going into the chocolate business to add to my wealth.
Milton Snavely Hershey
When I started making chocolate I didn’t follow the policies of those already in the business. If I had, I would never have made a go of it. Instead, I started out with the determination to make a better nickel chocolate bar than any of my competitors made, and I did so.
Milton Snavely Hershey
I believed that, if I put a chocolate on the market that was better than any one else was making, or was likely to make, and keep it absolutely uniform in quality, the time would come when the public would appreciate it and buy it.
Milton Snavely Hershey
It requires the cooperation of every player on a team to win a game…
Milton Snavely Hershey
It is not [a] given for everybody to stand up at the plate and slam out a home-run… but we may be able to lay down a bunt that will bring in the winning run. That’s just as effective even though it may not be as spectacular.
Milton Snavely Hershey
We’ll grow! All we need is time.
Milton Snavely Hershey
What I want to do more than anything else is to give my employees an opportunity of advancing themselves in this world, and to give them a helping hand.
Milton Snavely Hershey
I retired from business and started out to see the world, but idleness didn’t sit well with me, so I got into the harness again.
Milton Snavely Hershey
Men and women in the country are taken for what they are worth, and less for what they seem to be.
Milton Snavely Hershey
I was called a dreamer…
Milton Snavely Hershey
It takes more than brick and mortar to build a town.
Milton Snavely Hershey
[On building the town of Hershey] A man accomplishes little when he thinks and acts alone.
Milton Snavely Hershey
A drinking man is a poor investment.
Milton Snavely Hershey
It is remarkable how many viewpoints there are in this world.
Milton Snavely Hershey
I failed three times because I had not taken the time to get all the facts. After that I learned my lesson well.
Milton Snavely Hershey
You can surmount failure. You can be battered down three times, as I was, and still come out on top.
Milton Snavely Hershey
[On one never being too old to do anything.] An interest in something new triumphs over the calendar.
Milton Snavely Hershey
Some men are washed up when they are forty, while others just get started at that age.
Milton Snavely Hershey
When I left home as a boy to tackle the job of making a living my mother gave me some good advice. She said, 'Milton, you are now going out into the world to make a man of yourself. My best advice to you is - when you tackle a job stick to it until you have mastered it.' I never have forgotten those words and now when I think of the chocolate business and the way it has grown I think it was my mother's advice that spurred me on and helped me to overcome my obstacles.
Milton Snavely Hershey
You can only make money by giving people what they want, and by making good use of your opportunities. When I started making chocolate I didn't follow the policies of those already in the business. If I had, I would never have made a go of it. Instead, I started out with the determination to make a better nickel chocolate bar than any of my competitors made, and I did so.
Milton Snavely Hershey
When I failed in New York City I was able to pay my creditors forty cents on the dollar. As soon as I got on my feet financially I returned to New York City and paid my creditors the remaining sixty percent of my indebtedness. I never did anything since that gave me as much satisfaction as when I paid back that money.
Milton Snavely Hershey
Why shouldn’t I work!
Milton Snavely Hershey
Hershey means progress.
Milton Snavely Hershey
Originally I planned to build my factory in Lancaster, but the property owners wanted too much money for their sites, so I looked elsewhere. I inspected locations in four states, and it was not until then that I was convinced that Derry Township was the most suitable place for me to build the factory. When my friends learned that I was going to build the factory up here they thought I had gone out of my mind.
Milton Snavely Hershey
[On being a forty one year old bachelor until he fell in love shortly afterwards with twenty five year old Catherine Elizabeth Sweeney] You’re a fool, a diamond covered flop in a loud suit.
Milton Snavely Hershey
Whatever money you boys earn during your lifetime, use it wisely. Spend it for the good of others, and you will be richly rewarded.
Milton Snavely Hershey
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