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William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme
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“It is my hope, and my brother’s hope... to build houses in which our work-people will be able to live and see comfortable. Semi-detached houses, with gardens back and front, in which they will be able to know more about the science of life than they can in a back slum, and in which they will learn that there is more enjoyment in life than a mere going to and returning from work, and looking forward to Saturday night to draw their wages.”
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925) first seen 1888 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Messrs. Lever’s New Soap Works, Port Sunlight, Cheshire. Full Reports of the Ceremony of Cutting the First Sod, and Proceedings at the Inaugural Banquet, 1888, pp.28-29; Cited in: Viscount William Hulme Lever Leverhulme…
“My happiness is my business. I can see finality for myself, an end, an absolute end; but none for my business. There one has room to breathe, to grow, to expand, and the possibilities are boundless. One can go to places like the Congo, and organize, organize, organize, well, very big things indeed. But I don’t work at business only for the sake of money. I am not a lover of money as money and never have been. I work at business because business is life. It enables me to do things.”
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: William Lever, quoted in C. Wilson, The History of Unilever, London: Cassell, 1954, vol. 1, p. 187; Requoted in Witzel (2004: 166)
“Half my advertising is wasted but I do not know which half.”
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lord Leverhulme, as cited in: John Sherman Wright, John E. Mertes (1974), Advertising's role in society, p. 78
“Aye, nay, we won't argue: you're wrong.”
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: William Lever, quoted in: Adam Macqueen (2011) The King Of Sunlight: How William Lever Cleaned Up The World. Phrase he often used with employees — and he never changed his mind.
“A child that knows nothing of God’s earth, of green fields, or sparkling brooks, of breezy hill and springy heather, and whose mind is stored with none of the beauties of nature, but knows only the drunkenness prevalent in the hideous slum it is forced to live in, and whose walks abroad have never extended beyond the corner public-house and the pawnshop, cannot be benefited by education. Such children grow up to depraved, and become a danger and terror to the State; wealth-destroyers instead of wealth-producers.”
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There can be no reason why man should not make towns liveable and healthy... just as much subject to the beneficent influence of bright sunshine, fresh air, flowers, and plants, as the country.”
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source