Eugene Grace Quotes

United States, President
August 27, 1876 – July, 7, 1960.

Eugene Gifford Grace was the president of Bethlehem Steel Corporation from 1916 to 1945, and chairman of the board from 1945 until his retirement in 1957. He also served as president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, and sat on the board of trustees for Lehigh University.

Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge or the machine should be built at all, where it should be built, and when.

Eugene Grace
- Bridge
- Built
- Machines
If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.

Eugene Grace
- Success
- Training
- Habit

Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.

Eugene Grace
- Life
- Thing
- Depended