Life, if you have a bent for it, is a beautiful thing. It consists, I do believe, of having a sense of urgency.
Charles Luther Burton Quotes
I hold no brief for private enterprise. But I have unshakeable faith in individual enterprise.
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| Birth: | 1876 |
| Death: | 1961 |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Profession: | Businessman |
About
Charles Luther Burton was born in Malvern, Scarborough Township in 1876, Burton and his family moved to Toronto in 1899. He quit school at the age of fifteen and obtained employment as an office boy in a law firm. In 1912 he re-established himself as assistant general manager at the Robert Simpson Company then under the directorship of his old friend and mentor H. H. Fudger. By 1929, Burton was president of Simpson’s, becoming chairman of the board in 1948 when his son Edgar assumed the presidency.
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