101 Quotes by George Horace Lorimer

Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there’s only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

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.

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.

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

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don’t want to set him down as a failure till he’s dead or loses his courage.

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.

In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow’s.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he’s getting his way, while all the time he’s having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there’s nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.