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"38 George Horace Lorimer Quotes & Sayings

      American     /    
Born: 6 October 1867. Died: 22 October 1937 | Journalist | Author | Publisher |

You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

Preach Sermons Sinners Short
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You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Every Morning Determination Satisfaction
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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.

Threaten Promise Convenient Pay
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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.

Books Right Brain Dead
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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.

Word Procrastination Language
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A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

Friend Business Bosom Fellow
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Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.

Easy Hard Impossible
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There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.
Unpardonable Sins World Success
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Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.
Ask Man Knows
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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.

Business Conversation Fewer
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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.

Good Money Check
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I want to say right here that the easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.

Friends World Enemies
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Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Easy Hard Impossible
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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.

Salesman Selling Satisfy
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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.

Same Year Eating Quail
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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.

Solution Energy Nature
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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. You Never Money

Consider Hard Word
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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.

Men Dead Hang Right
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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.

Listening Fellow Talk
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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.

World Bright Men Say
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A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.
Tacful Man Cut Bee
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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.

Body Present Tremendous Stimulation
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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.

Fellow Twice Failure Dozen
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Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
Principles Fashioned Noble Life
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What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Know Club Meat-ax Fellow
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In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.

Dealings Remember Opportunity Tomorrow
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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.

College Student Educating Eliminate
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Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

College Fools Develop
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When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

Fortune Calling Leaves
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ThereÂ’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 heÂ’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

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

Appearance Deceitful Deceive
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When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
Tongue Lies Truth
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But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.
People Think Young
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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.

Man Company Early Late
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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.

Man Fellow Money
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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.
Great Secret Management Earger
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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.

Might Reality Men Absolutely
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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.

Vast Carload Facts Sloshing
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George Horace Lorimer Quotes & Sayings