Will Keith Kellogg Quotes

106 Will Keith Kellogg Quotes

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[In 1909 at the age of 49] If I am successful in getting out of debt and become prosperous in my business affairs, I expect to make a good use of any wealth that may come to me.
Will Keith Kellogg

[At the age of 46] It appears my business will be a financial success and it is my hope that anything I accumulate can be used for the benefit of mankind.
Will Keith Kellogg

Sixty-five cents is enough to pay for a haircut!
Will Keith Kellogg

[On agreeing to donate $500,000.00 to one possible cancer cure treatment] I am not sure there is anything in this cancer cure, but suppose there was and I did not support it!
Will Keith Kellogg

[In 1926] To get a child welfare foundation established and set in operation during my lifetime.
Will Keith Kellogg

[To an old friend, Attorney Burritt Hamilton of Battle Creek] I want you to draft a will for me. It will contain about thirty trusts. It must be carefully drawn. It will dispose of property of the estimated value of $50,000,000.00 [‘That order was a memorable shock to a country lawyer!’ – Burritt Hamilton]
Will Keith Kellogg

I have gotten a practical education which has been a great deal [of] help to me…
Will Keith Kellogg

These young people should stand on their own legs.
Will Keith Kellogg

[In 1929] I know how to invest my money. I’ll invest it in people.
Will Keith Kellogg

[At the age of 69] I never had a taste for high living. I never cared to own a yacht. I have never desired to become extremely rich although I have had a natural wish to make enough money to live comfortably and to provide well for my family. But that’s about as far as my ambition for wealth has ever gone.
Will Keith Kellogg



I want to help those with little or no income. I want to establish a foundation that will help handicapped children everywhere to face the future with confidence, with health, and with a strong-rooted security in their trust of this country and its institutions.
Will Keith Kellogg

Is one man’s dream for contributing to the welfare of children to point the way out of a world dilemma? Is it to be a way of proving that the authoritarian state is not the only alternative to a welfare program by representative government? Is this philanthropic program a dramatic reawakening of the pioneer American spirit?
Will Keith Kellogg

[On the tragic fall of his infant grandson Kenneth] The establishing of the Foundation was due in part to the fact that although I was amply able to pay the medical and surgical bills for Kenneth, I found it almost impossible to obtain adequate treatment for him during the first ten or twelve years of his life. This caused me to wonder what difficulties were in the paths of needy parents who seek help for their children when catastrophe strikes, and I resolved to lend what aid I could to such children.
Will Keith Kellogg

[On his foundation sometimes having conflicting views on his ideas of thrift.] Why is it necessary to use the long distance telephone to give away money?… That certainly was a high telephone and telegraph bill for the month of May.
Will Keith Kellogg

Education offers the greatest opportunity for really improving one generation over another.
Will Keith Kellogg

[On his philanthropy often going to young people to help them secure educations] I like to pick winners.
Will Keith Kellogg

[His target for his foundation] The greatest good to the greatest number.
Will Keith Kellogg

Funds committed to a foundation’s stewardship are part of the risk capital of society. Foundations can well be risk-takers on man’s cultural and intellectual and humanitarian frontiers.
Will Keith Kellogg

[On being blind due to glaucoma for the last decade of his life until passing away at age 91] I would give all my money just to see the sun and the green grass again.
Will Keith Kellogg

I don’t think I am licked yet. At any rate, I’m going to keep on fighting.
Will Keith Kellogg



[At the age of 90] I do not feel as young as I did when I was eighteen, but I do not know that I feel any older than when I was eighty-five.
Will Keith Kellogg

I have lived to be so old and both John L. and John, Jr. had to go so young.
Will Keith Kellogg

I have fought a good fight.
Will Keith Kellogg

[Ongoing attitude to thrift] I do not want a public funeral… The expenses should not exceed $500… No flowers…
Will Keith Kellogg

Remember that in this business you have got to give it room to grow.
Will Keith Kellogg

My pride wouldn’t let me quit… fortunately, my luck changed.
Will Keith Kellogg


Bonus Quotes about Will Keith Kellogg

[On John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg] John Harvey Kellogg and W. K. Kellogg were like two fellows trying to climb up the same ladder at the same time… The two men did not seem like brothers at all… I believe that the elder deliberately kept the younger down.
One physician formerly at the sanitarium

[On evaluating someone’s character and attitude toward philanthropy] The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the subject’s checkbooks.
Anon



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