George Horace Lorimer Quotes
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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.
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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
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When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
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Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.
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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.
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Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
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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.
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The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.
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You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
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After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.
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If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.
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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.
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The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.
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True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.