American journalist & author (1867-1937)
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
Old Gorgon Graham
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
Old Gorgon Graham
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
Old Gorgon Graham
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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
Old Gorgon Graham
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
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham