Howard Hughes Quotes

I intend to be, the richest man in the world.

Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn’t exist.

Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.

Money can’t buy happiness.

Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.

I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.

One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.

My father told me, never have partners.

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.

Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.

Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live?

I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.

I wanted to see New York . . . so I tried to see how fast I could do it in.

We don’t have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.

I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it’s a failure, I’ll leave the country and never come back.

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.

The human brain is still undergoing rapid adaptive evolution,.

A million dollars isn’t what it used to be.

I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire.

The Hercules’ was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built… I put the sweat of my life into this thing.