George Horace Lorimer Quotes

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.

A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.

There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.

You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.

Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

Give fools the first and women the last word.

Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

Having money and buying things with money is a good thing. But also do not forget to check occasionally to lose if you do not buy anything with money or not

A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.

Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

It is good to have things that money can buy but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.