Samuel Bronfman Quotes
8 quotes from Samuel Bronfman — Canadian businessman who built Seagram into the largest distilled spirits company in the world during Prohibition and b….
“A conviction would constitute a moral and psychological triumph similar to the capture of Capone and would remove from active hostilities the fertile brain and evil genius of Sam and Alan Bronfman.”
“I don't get ulcers. I give them.”
“Not to pooh-pooh the money, but that's not the real disaster. The real disaster is bad judgment. We took something my father had built and my son converted into something which was really dynamic, and put it in with these guys to get the kind of size we needed. And suddenly it blew up in our faces.”
“I don't know the first goddamn thing about how to make whisky, but I'll be goddamned if I'm not going to learn.”
“Distilling is a science; blending is an art.”
“Tell me, Edgar, are we buying all this stock in MGM just so you can get laid?”
“The best whisky has yet to be made.”
“The real disaster is bad judgment. We took something my father had built and my son converted into something which was really dynamic, and put it in with these guys to get the kind of size we needed. And suddenly it blew up in our faces.”
