Calvin Coolidge Quotes
30th President of the United States
Calvin Coolidge was 30th president of the united states from the United States
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”— Calvin Coolidge
Attributed in McKee's 'Coolidge: Wit and Wisdom' (1933). Yale Book of Quotations (2006), p. 173, cites it as written for New York Life Insurance Company.
The Story of Calvin
Silent Cal
Coolidge won the 1924 election, presided over the Roaring Twenties, and left office in 1929 with strong approval. He was called 'Silent Cal' because he believed words should be spent carefully. At a dinner party, a woman bet she could get more than two words from him. He replied: 'You lose.' He died of a heart attack on January 5, 1933, at sixty. The quote about persistence outlived everything else.
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