O. Henry Quotes
Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven; To his feet thy tribute bring. Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, Who like me his praise should sing?
Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.
The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.
There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are right!
All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.
Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking
Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.
Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.
The thing to do with money is to put it back into yourself, into your work, into the thing that is important, into whatever you are so much interested in that it is more important than money.
You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.
Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.
The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.
There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.
I regarded our progress merely as an invitation to do more - as an indication that we had reached a place where we might begin to perform a real service.
The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.
The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.
The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.
Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?
The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.
One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.