George Horace Lorimer Quotes
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It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.
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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 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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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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Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.
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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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You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
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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.
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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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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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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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Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.
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The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.