George Horace Lorimer Quotes & Sayings

Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit
if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

Some salesmen think that selling is like eating - to satisfy an existing appetite; but a good salesman is like a good cook - he can create an appetite when the buyer isn't hungry. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out. — George Horace Lorimer

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success. — George Horace Lorimer

The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends. — George Horace Lorimer

friendship. I want to say right here that the easiest way in the world to make enemies — George Horace Lorimer

A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten. — George Horace Lorimer

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested. — George Horace Lorimer

Poverty never spoils a good man, but prosperity often does. It's easy to stand hard times, because that's the only thing you can do, but in good times the fool-killer has to do night work. — George Horace Lorimer

The fun of the thing's in the run and not in the finish. Your — George Horace Lorimer

If there's one piece of knowledge that is of less use to a fellow than knowing when he's beat, it's knowing when he's done just enough work to keep from being fired. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them. — George Horace Lorimer

As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase. — George Horace Lorimer

Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech. — George Horace Lorimer

Some men get an education from other men and newspapers and public libraries; and some get it from professors and parchments - it doesn't make any special difference how you get a half-nelson on the right thing, just so you get it and freeze on to it. The package doesn't count after the eye's been attracted by it, and in the end it finds its way to the ash heap. — George Horace Lorimer

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking. — George Horace Lorimer

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

Beauty is only skin deep, but that's deep enough to satisfy any reasonable man. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

when you have been in business as long as I have you will be inclined to put a pretty high value on loyalty. It is the one commodity that hasn't any market value, and it's the one that you can't pay too much for. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

It has been my experience that, even when a man has a sense of humor, it only really carries him to the point where he will join in a laugh at the expense of the other fellow. — George Horace Lorimer

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse; that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness. — George Horace Lorimer

But some people, and especially very young people, don't think anything's worth believing unless it's hard to believe. — George Horace Lorimer

But it isn't enough to be all right in this world; you've got to look all right as well, because two-thirds of success is making people think you are all right. — George Horace Lorimer

I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy. — George Horace Lorimer

There's no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it. — George Horace Lorimer

What we're really sending you to Harvard for is to get a little of the educations that's so good and plenty there. When it's passed around you don't want to be bashful, but reach right out and take a big helping every time, for I want you to get your share. You;ll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only things a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. — George Horace Lorimer

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 — George Horace Lorimer

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth. — George Horace Lorimer

Nothing earns better interest than judicious questions, and the man who invests in more knowledge of the business than he has to have in order to hold his job has capital with which to buy a mortgage on a better one. — George Horace Lorimer

Superiority makes every man feel its equal. It is courtesy without condescension; affability without familiarity; self-sufficiency without selfishness; simplicity without snide. It weighs sixteen ounces to the pound without the package, and it doesn't need a four-colored label to make it go. — George Horace Lorimer

with most men duty means something unpleasant which the other fellow ought to do. — 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. — George Horace Lorimer

Some men learn all they know from books; others from life; both kinds are narrow. The first are all theory; the second are all practice. It's the fellow who knows enough about practice to test his theories for blow-holes that gives the world a shove ahead, and finds a fair margin of profit in shoving it. — George Horace Lorimer

When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills. — George Horace Lorimer

It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up. — George Horace Lorimer

In handling men, your own feelings are the only ones that are of no importance. I don't mean by this that you want to sacrifice your self-respect, but you must keep in mind that the bigger the position the broader the man must be to fill it. And a diet of courtesy and consideration gives girth to a boss. — George Horace Lorimer

There are two unpardonable sins in this world
success and failure. — George Horace Lorimer

Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it. — George Horace Lorimer

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate. — George Horace Lorimer

A good many young fellows envy their boss because they think he makes the rules and can do as he pleases. As a matter of fact, he's the only man in the shop who can't. He's like the fellow on the tight-rope - there's plenty of scenery under him and lots of room around him, but he's got to keep his feet on the wire all the time and travel straight ahead. — George Horace Lorimer

Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all these, a season that stands for as much to the race as Easter does may well be remembered each year with songs and flowers and with every mark of gratitude and of loftiest jubilation. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

Worrying is the one game in which, if you guess right, you don't get any satisfaction out of your smartness. A busy man has no time to bother with it. — George Horace Lorimer

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it. — George Horace Lorimer

Every fellow is really two men
what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead. — George Horace Lorimer

Give fools the first and women the last word. — George Horace Lorimer

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb. — George Horace Lorimer

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

It's 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 that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. — George Horace Lorimer

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them. — George Horace Lorimer

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. — George Horace Lorimer

You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners. — George Horace Lorimer

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog. — George Horace Lorimer

Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second. — George Horace Lorimer

Some men are like oak leaves
they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them. — George Horace Lorimer

I don't know anything that's quite so dead as a man who's fallen three or four thousand feet off the edge of a cloud. — George Horace Lorimer

True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age. — George Horace Lorimer

There isn't any such thing as being your own boss in this world unless you're a tramp, and then there's the constable. — George Horace Lorimer

There's nothing in the world sicker-looking than the grin of the man who's trying to join in heartily when the laugh's on him, and to pretend that he likes it. — 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. — George Horace Lorimer

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

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. — George Horace Lorimer

the only way to show a fellow that he's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it. If it really is the wrong thing you won't have to argue with him to quit, and if it isn't you haven't any right to. — George Horace Lorimer

A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it. — George Horace Lorimer

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow. — George Horace Lorimer

You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost. — George Horace Lorimer