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    • Owen D. Young

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    American businessman, lawyer, diplomate (1874-1962)

    Owen D. Youngwas an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conferencein 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission.
    He is known for the plan to settle Germany’s World War I reparations, known as the Young Plan and for the creation of the Radio Corporation of America.

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    About the Owen D. Young

    Owen D. Youngwas an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conferencein 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission.

    He is known for the plan to settle Germany’s World War I reparations, known as the Young Plan and for the creation of the Radio Corporation of America. Young founded RCA as a subsidiary of General Electric in 1919; he became its first chairman and continued in that position until 1929. RCA was divested in 1932 and liquidated by GE in 1986.

    6 Quotes by Owen D. Young

    1. 1.

      Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

      Owen D. Young

      American businessman, lawyer, diplomate (1874-1962)

    2. 2.

      It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.

      Owen D. Young

      American businessman, lawyer, diplomate (1874-1962)

    3. 3.

      The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

      Owen D. Young

      American businessman, lawyer, diplomate (1874-1962)

    4. 4.

      It takes vision and courage to create – it takes faith and courage to prove.

      Owen D. Young

      American businessman, lawyer, diplomate (1874-1962)

    5. 5.

      When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

      Owen D. Young

      American businessman, lawyer, diplomate (1874-1962)

    6. 6.

      The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

      Owen D. Young

      American businessman, lawyer, diplomate (1874-1962)