Howard Hughes

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

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

Money can't buy happiness.

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

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.

My father told me, never have partners.

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

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

About all else, I want to be the most famous man in the world. And I don't care by what means I become famous, as long as fame comes.

The way to make a small fortune in the movies is to start with a large fortune.

I'm not crazy. I'm just not you.

I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the greatest film producer in the world, the greatest pilot in the world, and the greatest industrialist in the world.

I'm not a paranoid, but I'm certainly afraid of getting germs.

I don't think I'll ever be able to bring myself to touch a doorknob again. It's too dangerous.

I want the whole room sealed off. No one gets in or out.

I need to be alone. I need to be completely alone.

Get me a Kleenex, and make sure it's a new one. Don't touch it.

I'm going to live forever, or die trying.

I want to buy up all the land in Nevada.