101 Quotes by George Horace Lorimer

There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.

The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

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.

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

It is 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 you haven't lost the things money can't buy.