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Henry John Heinz
(11 Oct 1844 - 14 May 1919)
American businessman who founded H.J. Heinz Co.and invented its “57 varieties” slogan
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Science Quotes by Henry John Heinz (4 quotes)
I feel as though people were all pushing us down because we are bankrupt. Such is the world. … A good many call to see us. They feel sore … I feel very sad, as though I had not a friend in the world … I feel sometimes when I meet people, no matter how much confidence they may have in me, they don’t seem as they once did … A man is nowhere without money … People care little about you without money … The majority of friends are seemingly so as long as it costs them nothing or have no sacrifice to make. This I could not have believed … It is hard to lose trade, money, friends and reputation, and even parents in trouble … People talk terribly. We find that we have but few friends left … I feel sad and constantly worried. People as much as say we have money. It is hard to bear. …… I feel as though every person had lost confidence in me, and I am therefore reserved … I begin to care less about what people say … Bankruptcy changes a man’s nature.
— Henry John Heinz
Beginning on Christmas Day, various extracts from succeeding days in his diary (1875), as quoted in Robert C. Alberts, Chap. 2, 'The Ordeal of Henry Heinz', The Good Provider: H. J. Heinz and His 57 Varieties (1973), 23-24.
Not so much what you say as how you say it.
It is neither capital nor labor but management that brings success; since management will attract capital, and capital can employ labor.
Luck may help a man over a ditch if he jumps well.
It is neither capital nor labor but management that brings success; since management will attract capital, and capital can employ labor.
Luck may help a man over a ditch if he jumps well.
— Henry John Heinz
Mottos in three adjacent stained glass windows of the H.J.Heinz Co. Auditorium. Seen in photo, reproduced in Robert C. Alberts, The Good Provider: H. J. Heinz and His 57 Varieties (1973), 110ff.
Temperance and Labor are the two real physicians of man.
— Henry John Heinz
Motto in stained glass window of the H.J.Heinz Co. Time Office. Seen in photo dated 1911, reproduced in Robert C. Alberts, The Good Provider: H. J. Heinz and His 57 Varieties (1973), 110ff.
To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.
A favorite maxim.
A favorite maxim.
— Henry John Heinz
As quoted in George F. Redmond, Financial Giants of America (1922), Vol. 2, 289.
See also:
- 11 Oct - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Heinz's birth.
- Henry John Heinz Biography - from Financial Giants (1922).
- H. J. Heinz: A Biography, by Quentin R. Skrabec. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for H.J. Heinz.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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