George Horace Lorimer > Quotes

“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
― George Lorimer

“It's 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 that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.”
― George Lorimer

“I want to say right here that the easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.”
― George Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

“Tact is the knack of keeping quiet at the right time; of being so agreeable yourself that no one can be disagreeable to you; of making inferiority feel like equality. A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.”
― George Lorimer

“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.”
― George Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

“Some salesmen think that selling is like eating—to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook—he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry.”
― George Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

“What we're really sending you to Harvard for is to get a little of the educations that's so good and plenty there. When it's passed around you don't want to be bashful, but reach right out and take a big helping every time, for I want you to get your share. You;ll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only things a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away.”
― George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

“Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.”
― George Lorimer

“Poverty never spoils a good man, but prosperity often does. It’s easy to stand hard times, because that’s the only thing you can do, but in good times the fool-killer has to do night work.”
― George Lorimer, Letters From A Merchant To His Son: Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son Classics, Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son George Horace Lorimer Illustrated and Annotated

“Some men learn all they know from books; others from life; both kinds are narrow. The first are all theory; the second are all practice. It’s the fellow who knows enough about practice to test his theories for blow-holes that gives the world a shove ahead, and finds a fair margin of profit in shoving it.”
― George Lorimer, Letters From A Merchant To His Son: Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son Classics, Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son George Horace Lorimer Illustrated and Annotated

“Sungguh baik untuk memiliki uang dan hal-hal yang bisa dibeli dengan uang, tetapi sungguh baik pula untuk sekali-sekali memeriksa dan meyakinkan diri kita, bahwa kita tidak kehilangan hal-hal yang tidak bisa dibeli dengan uang.”
― George Horace Lorimer

“Worrying is the one game in which, if you guess right, you don’t get any satisfaction out of your smartness. A busy man has no time to bother with it.”
― George Lorimer, Letters From A Merchant To His Son: Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son Classics, Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son George Horace Lorimer Illustrated and Annotated

“If there’s one piece of knowledge that is of less use to a fellow than knowing when he’s beat, it’s knowing when he’s done just enough work to keep from being fired.”
― George Lorimer, Letters From A Merchant To His Son: Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son Classics, Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son George Horace Lorimer Illustrated and Annotated

“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.”
― George Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

“A good many young fellows envy their boss because they think he makes the rules and can do as he pleases. As a matter of fact, he’s the only man in the shop who can’t. He’s like the fellow on the tight-rope—there’s plenty of scenery under him and lots of room around him, but he’s got to keep his feet on the wire all the time and travel straight ahead.”
― George Lorimer, Letters From A Merchant To His Son: Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son Classics, Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son George Horace Lorimer Illustrated and Annotated

“But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.”
― George Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

“You’ll find that education’s about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.”
― George Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, ... known to his intimates as "Piggy."

“Beauty is only skin deep, but that’s deep enough to satisfy any reasonable man.”
― George Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, ... known to his intimates as "Piggy."

“It has been my experience that, even when a man has a sense of humor, it only really carries him to the point where he will join in a laugh at the expense of the other fellow.”
― George Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

“There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish.”
― George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, ... known to his intimates as "Piggy."

“Je dobré mať peniaze a veci, ktoré si za peniaze kúpite. Dobré je však občas skontrolovať, či ste nestratili veci, ktoré sa za peniaze kúpiť nedajú.”
― George Lorimer

“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.”
― George Lorimer, Letters From A Merchant To His Son: Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son Classics, Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son George Horace Lorimer Illustrated and Annotated

“when you have been in business as long as I have you will be inclined to put a pretty high value on loyalty. It is the one commodity that hasn’t any market value, and it’s the one that you can’t pay too much for.”
― George Lorimer, Letters From A Merchant To His Son: Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son Classics, Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son George Horace Lorimer Illustrated and Annotated

“Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by.”
― George Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, ... known to his intimates as "Piggy."

“the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it. If it really is the wrong thing you won’t have to argue with him to quit, and if it isn’t you haven’t any right to.”
― George Lorimer, Letters From A Merchant To His Son: Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son Classics, Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son George Horace Lorimer Illustrated and Annotated

“Remember that when you’re in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and that when you’re in the wrong you can’t afford to lose it.”
― George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“friendship. I want to say right here that the easiest way in the world to make enemies”
― George Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, ... known to his intimates as "Piggy."

“A real salesman is one-part talk and nine-parts judgment; and he uses the nine-parts of judgment to tell when to use the one-part of talk.”
― George Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, ... known to his intimates as "Piggy."

“I don’t know anything that’s quite so dead as a man who’s fallen three or four thousand feet off the edge of a cloud.”
― George Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, ... known to his intimates as "Piggy."

“The first thing that any education ought to give a man is character, and the second thing is education.”
― George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son