O. Henry Quotes

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here.

Work mixed with management becomes not only easier but more profitable. The time is past when anyone can boast about 'hard work' without having a corresponding result to show for it.

All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.

If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability

I'll sleep well tonight

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

The longer an article is in the process of manufacture and the more it is moved about, the greater its ultimate cost.

Mark my word - A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

Working together is success.

Who stops learning may be old.

A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.

It is regrettable that people think about our monetary system, and of our economic structure, only in times of depression.

The public should always be wondering how it is possible to give so much for the money.

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

No two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything like it before, and never will be again.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.

Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.

I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

Come ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home!

Thinking is hard work. That's why there are so few people doing it.

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.

A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

Irrespective of whether you suspect you are able to do a factor or not, that you are right

There are people who say they can , others they can not . In general, they are all right .

..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts

You can get it in any color, as long as it is black

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you still have to file your 990 each year.