John Kluge Quotes
Assets are cold.
Kluge, John W. "Interview with John W. Kluge." American Academy of Achievement, American Academy of Achievement, 16 Feb. 1991.
Statements like this caused some to believe him a Marxist, but see his quotation on Karl Marx -- {603061}.
See Daniel Webster for an earlier expression of this notion.
Ironically, Fitzhugh who detested socialism, held this basic socialist principle. His solution however, was that the profits were necessary for society, and therefore slavery was the solution for Blacks AND whites.
Romney a very successful businessman was the son of the president of one of the major Automobile companies and even exceeded his father’s business accomplishment. However, he was very much out of touch with, and ignorant of, most people’s realities. What was sad about this remark, was that he did not want to embarrass any of the students. He simply assumed that the norm in America was to have parents who had money to lend. Romney lost handily to Barack Obama.
John Werner Kluge was a German-American entrepreneur who became a television industry mogul in the United States. At one time he was the richest person in the U.S.