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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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."

“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

“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

“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

“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."

“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

“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

“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

“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."

“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."

“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

“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

“But it isn’t enough to be all right in this world; you’ve got to look all right as well, because two-thirds of success is making people think you are all right.”
― 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 a boy’s had a good mother he’s got a good conscience, and when he’s got a good conscience he don’t need to have right and wrong labeled for him.”
― 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

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

“È bene avere il denaro e
le cose che il denaro può
comprare, ma è bene anche,
ogni tanto, controllare
ed essere sicuri di non aver
perso le cose che il denaro
non può comprare”
― George Horace Lorimer

“In handling men, your own feelings are the only ones that are of no importance. I don’t mean by this that you want to sacrifice your self-respect, but you must keep in mind that the bigger the position the broader the man must be to fill it. And a diet of courtesy and consideration gives girth to a boss.”
― 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