Will Keith Kellogg Quotes
106 Will Keith Kellogg Quotes (Kelloggs Cornflakes, W. K. Kellogg)
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It has been much easier to make money than to know how to spend it wisely.
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My pride wouldn’t let me quit.
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We were in debt, but we bought a reputation for keeping our promises.
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After all is said and done, we are all striving for results.
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[On his foundation’s philosophy] We will help people to help themselves.
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[To his staff during the 1930s depression when he stood in the embers of his year old corn flakes factory] Double our advertising!
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One of the most beneficial services that could be bestowed upon civilization is to make the lives of little children happier, healthier and more promising for their adult years.
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None genuine without the signature of W. K. Kellogg.
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I was green when I started the business… I did not know the difference between a food broker and a jobber.
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Once seen, never forgotten.
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What cannot be cured, must be endured.
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I don’t like this hand packaging. I want products that run off conveyor belts into packages.
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Expediency is the mother of invention.
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Do not scatter your ammunition; concentrate and you may get your bird.
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Keep your feet on the earth and your head up, but not too high in the sky.
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We have tried one way and it didn’t work, so now we will try another route.
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[At the age of 70 – he lived for another 21 years past that] At my age, you can’t wait for trees to grow.
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[On his later years goal of building a foundation to help others] I never could reach that goal if I let anything interfere with my health, my energies, my strengths, my attitudes.
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Invest my money in people.
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Foundations can well be risk-takers on man’s cultural and intellectual and humanitarian frontiers.
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[On the W. K Kellogg Foundation he established in 1930 (Still operating in 2013)] Any success of the Foundation is due to the trustees and the staff. They had the vision. I only supplied the funds.
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[At the age of 14] Now if the merchants at Bellevue and other villages will just buy, this will be a big day for me.
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[On Tobacco] That vile weed.
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As a boy I never learned to play.
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[On his belief in the magic number seven (Even staying in hotels with room numbers ending in seven and on seventh floors)] I was my father’s seventh son, born on the seventh day of the week and the seventh day of the month. My father was a seventh child and the name ‘Kellogg’ has seven letters.
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Father had acquired quite a number of vacant lots in Battle Creek which he hoped would increase in value. These lots we cultivated and used for growing vegetables and small fruits. Before daylight in the summertime we boys were routed out of bed to weed berries and vegetables, or to root, bunch and wash onions and lettuce for the local market.
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I cannot say I enjoyed weeding the onions and other vegetable gardens.
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I have vivid recollections of John Harvey [Kellogg] warming his cold feet by placing same on my back, not conducive to my sleeping well.
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When a small boy, and when the entire State of Michigan was known for its malaria, I had several spells of the miserable disease… However, the black nauseous medicine eventually cured the condition. [A crude form of quinine.]
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[On becoming a salesman at the age of fourteen] My father was not as insistent upon my attending school as regularly as some fathers.
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[In 1877-78] I worked for a half-brother, Albert Kellogg at Kalamazoo, in his broom factory. I was not an expert broom maker, but I preferred preparing the stock, ready for the broom makers to use.
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I was very bashful and diffident as a youngster and I never got entirely over it. I don’t like to meet new people now except on a business basis.
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I thought the whole nation had been getting soft and… in my opinion it took some knocks and hardships to develop the character of young people and to keep firm the character of us old birds.
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[In September 1884] Am afraid that I will always be a poor man… [From a man who was able to turn himself around and build a $100,000,000 business (In 1959 dollars)]
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[In 1894] I was doing so poorly financially that I became somewhat discouraged and thought perhaps I should sell out… I found it impossible to meet the expenses of the growing family with the rather meager income…
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[In 1894] I found it impossible to meet the expenses of the growing family with the rather meager income and had acquired considerable indebtedness. About 1893 or 1894, Dr J. H. (John Harvey Kellogg) told me that if I could succeed in finding some agents to sell his subscription books, he would give me 25 percent of the net profits on sales made on any I might secure. Although at the time I was working fifteen or more hours a day, I was fortunate in securing the services of several first-class book men, with the result that at the end of thirteen and one-half years, I was free from debt and felt very happy to have my last mortgage paid.
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First I answered all inquiries concerning rates. Then I saw to it that Dr Kellogg answered the purely medical inquiries. I was indirectly responsible for the Good Health Publishing Company as well as for Modern Medicine Publishing Company and Sanitas Food. I was a member of the labor committee and chairman of the committee in charge of the Sanitarium Food Company. I acted as unofficial credit manager and also was in charge of the issuing of cards and making prices for all operations. I was responsible for investigating and issuing cards to charity patients and was always called on in cases of death to go with friends and relatives to the undertaker and to assist in the selection of a casket. I was always notified when insane patients succeeded in getting away. I was so overloaded with work that I am conscious that very little, if any of it, was performed satisfactorily.
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Someday I’ll be in a position to help people to help themselves.
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When the Sanitarium Board voted to make me business manager (during the absence of Dr. Kellogg) and to print my name on the letterhead, I declined the offer.
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[In 1898] I purchased forty acres of land on the bank of Mill Lake twelve miles west and north of Battle Creek, for $800, making a down payment of $100. From then until about 1906 the family lived at the place in the summers, and I would go there for a day on each weekend.
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