Paul Gray Hoffman (1891–1974) was an American automobile company executive, statesman and global development aid administrator. Hoffman was born in Western Springs, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He quit college at 18 to sell Studebaker cars in Los Angeles, had made his first million dollars by the age of 34 and became president of Studebaker ten years later. Hoffman and Harold Sines Vance were the two executives most responsible for rescuing Studebaker from insolvency in the 1930s.
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A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share of the world and lets other people have theirs.
—Paul G. Hoffman
We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.
—Paul G. Hoffman
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