Take a look at 21 intelligent and inspiring quotes on force and success from Howard Hughes, one of the famous American business tycoon.
Howard Hughes was a famous American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world. During his lifetime he was famous as one of the most financially affluent individuals across the globe. Before making a mark in the aviation industry, he first became a distinguished film producer.
Born on December 24, 1905, in Houston, Texas, Hughes was the son of a successful oil-drill tool manufacturer and inherited the family business in 1923 at the age of 18. He used some of his fortune to finance films, beginning in 1926. He produced several movies, including the World War I epic Hell's Angels (1930), which featured expensive aerial fight sequences and a then-unknown actress named Jean Harlow. Some of his other significant films were Scarface (1932) and The Outlaw (1941). During his days in Hollywood, Hughes developed a reputation for being a playboy, dating such actresses as Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner and Ginger Rogers. Later he controlled the RKO film studio.
Hughes developed a passion for flying and founded his own aircraft company in the early 1930s. Besides designing and building planes, he risked his own life several times testing planes and setting world air-speed records in the mid- to late 1930s. He is credited with many aviation innovations, such as the first retractable landing gear, and is also remembered for the H-4 Hercules, which the press nicknamed the Spruce Goose. For years, Hughes labored on this massive wooden seaplane, which was intended to transport troops and materials across the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Completed in 1947, it was flown only once and never went into production, however, Hughes maintained the H-4 in a climate-controlled hangar until his death in 1976. It is currently housed in the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.
He acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines and later acquired Air West, renaming it Hughes Airwest. Hughes was included in Flying Magazine’s list of the 51 Heroes of Aviation, ranked at No. 25.
Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by a worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness.
After a terrible plane crash in 1946, Hughes began to retreat from the world. He bought part of RKO Pictures in 1948, but he never visited the studio. In the 1960s, he lived on the top floor of the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, Nevada, and conducted all of his business from his hotel suite. Few people ever saw him, which led to much public speculation and rumors about his activities. It was thought that he suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder and had a drug problem. Hughes eventually left Las Vegas and began living abroad. In 1972 an allegedly authorized biography of famed recluse was announced, but it turned out to be a scam. The author, Clifford Irving, was later imprisoned for fraud.
His legacy till date is maintained through ‘Howard Hughes Corporation’ and ‘Howard Hughes Medical Institute’.
These quotes from Howard Hughes will inspire and motivate you to succeed in life. May Howard Hughes motivational quotes inspire within you the belief that you can achieve your dreams :
1. “Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.” Howard Hughes
2. “Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dream of impossible future conquests.” Howard Hughes
3. “Adventure is the essence of life.“ Howard Hughes
4. “I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.” Howard Hughes
5. “It’s so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.” Howard Hughes
6. “You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.” Howard Hughes
7. “My father told me, never have partners.” Howard Hughes
8. “Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live?” Howard Hughes
9. “If I have made a mistake in the design, then I’m the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.” Howard Hughes
10. “I am willing to go beyond all limitations.” Howard Hughes
11. “If you have a workforce that enjoys each other, they trust each other, they trust management, they’re proud of where they work – then they’re going to deliver a good product.” Howard Hughes
12. “Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.” Howard Hughes
13. “I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I’m a billionaire.” Howard Hughes
14. “Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés like ‘blazing trails,’ flying over ‘shark-infested seas,’ ‘battling with ‘forced landings amongst savage tribes’ became a familiar diet for breakfast. Unknown names became household words, whilst others, those of the failures, were forgotten utterly except by kith and kin.” Howard Hughes
15. “Money can’t buy happiness.” Howard Hughes
16. “I have my own religion. My conception of religion is being to the other fellow what you would like for him to be to you and do what you think is necessary to be the type of man that God could appreciate.” Howard Hughes
17. “This is a business. The purpose of a business is to make money. If it happens to make art, too, that would be secondary and accidental.” Howard Hughes
18. “I am my own man, and I’ll go where I please and do what I please.” Howard Hughes
19. “Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn’t exist.” Howard Hughes
20. "There is nothing that interests me more than medical research and the quest for better living facilities, and better health and better medical standards, not only in the United States, but throughout the world. This, to me, is where we should be concentrating our greatest efforts. In fact, possibly – I might say that I feel it could be more important than some of the space activity." Howard Hughes
21. "It is only the future in which I am really vitally interested." Howard Hughes
