Bill Scott > Bill's Quotes

“The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)”
― Muriel Spark, Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography

“The origins of great companies inevitably start with the ideas and enterprise of great men.”
― Bill Scott, The Buttercup: The Remarkable Story of Andrew Ewing and the Buttercup Dairy Company

“One morning, very early, when the sun was up,I rose and found the shiny dew on every buttercup”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Even though it is black, black as Egypt’s night, the customer is always right”
― Andrew Ewing

“The story of Andrew Ewing is partly one of rags to riches – but there is more to it than that, since his business success was combined with a generosity of spirit that led him to give away a fortune in pursuit of his ultimate ambition to die a poor man.”
― Bill Scott, The Buttercup: The Remarkable Story of Andrew Ewing and the Buttercup Dairy Company

“On Saturday mornings Mr Ewing would make his rounds, giving each tradesman £1 and the apprentices, ten shillings. Needless to say, we were all peeping around corners awaiting his arrival!”
― Ian Thompson Former Apprentice - on working for Andrew Ewing

“I am no longer 'trying to dig up evidence to prove' vaccines cause autism. There is already abundant evidence....This debate is not scientific but is political”
― David Ayoub M.D.

“The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.”
― M. Beddow Bayly

“Immunization is total nonsense! More than that is what's hidden from people about vaccines. They are dangerous. One child out of five has overwhelming disabilities from vaccines -- neurological problems, seizures.”
― Guylaine Lanctot

“Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a barbarism as vaccination possible.......Recent developments have shown that an inoculation made in the usual general practitioner's light-hearted way, without previous highly skilled examination of the state of the patient's blood, is just as likely to be a simple manslaughter as a cure or preventive. But vaccination is nothing short of attempted murder. A skilled bacteriologist would just as soon think of cutting his child's arm and rubbing the contents of the dustpan into the wound, as vaccinating it in the same.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective.”
― Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz

“To us children he (Mr Ewing) was our very own ‘Mr Chips’ and invariably we would each receive half a crown whenever we encountered him on his afternoon walk. If we were particularly lucky, he would send us to the ‘Big House’ for ice-cream – a rare treat in the early 1950s”
― Bill Scott