George Horace Lorimer Quotes
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Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.
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Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.
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When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
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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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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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When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
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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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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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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 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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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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True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.
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The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.