Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook · 1964

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“George Sylvester Viereck: Do you care much for money or for power?Beaverbrook: For neither in itself. I like activity, to wrestle with life and to beat it, to dare and win. I made my first million before I was thirty.Viereck: But having achieved so much, what keeps you going? Why do you spend yourself, your vitality, in politics and in business?Beaverbrook: To escape boredom.”

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