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Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Book by George Horace Lorimer · 29 quotes · Fellows, Men, Ifs

This book is a collection of letters from a self-made merchant to his son, filled with insights on entrepreneurship, personal growth, and the principles of success. The correspondence covers a range of topics, including business strategies, ethical considerations, and the importance of character and integrity.

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This book is a collection of letters from a self-made merchant to his son, filled with insights on entrepreneurship, personal growth, and the principles of success. The correspondence covers a range of topics, including business strategies, ethical considerations, and the importance of character and integrity.

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“Theres no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that hes chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.”

Men Way Giving Trying Shows Easier Fellows Foolish Chosen Cures Foolishness

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“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.”

Use Remember Reading Language Fellows Good Man

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“When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.”

Eye Lying Tongue Telling The Truth

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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.”

Men Long Jobs Girl Company Late Long Time Get A Girl

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“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.”

Mistake Cases Tables Deeper Impression Eggs Breakfast Rotten Nests Circulation

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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.”

Facts Differences Convenient Miscellaneous Delivery

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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.”

Way Years Long Middle Dog Months Cold Eating Fellows Thirty Crow Old Dog Quails

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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.”

Ifs Needs Hurt Pay Ready Promise Threat Credit It Hurts Convenient

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“There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.”

World Two Sin This World Success And Failure

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“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.”

Ifs Mind Littles Bigs Known Knowing Too Much Cures Big Heads Narrow Minds Knowing Too Much

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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.”

Ends Language Letters Procrastination Alphabet

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

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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.”

Men Should Humans Animal Talking Conversation Function Fewer Human Animal Business Man

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“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.”

Men Hands Mistake Fellows Excuse Same Mistakes Carelessness

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“Give fools the first and women the last word.”

Giving Firsts Lasts Fool Last Words

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“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.”

Knows Want Firsts Said Land What You Want Merchants Shortcuts Lawsuit

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“Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.”

Failing Succeed Fellows Forgiving Can't Forgive

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“A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.”

Virtue Lessons Forgotten Lesson Learned Muzzle

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“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.”

World Lying Lost This World Willing Fellows Drivers Screws Haul

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“Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.”

Matter Culture Climate

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“The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.”

World Way Enemy

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“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.”

Should Running School Girl Talking Flower Periods Calling Conversation Office Picks Distance Dinner Sentences Sunday Sunday School Excursions

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“A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.”

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“A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.”

Should Enemy Office Fellows Bosoms Bosom Friends

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“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.”

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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.”

Knows Knowledge Fellows Clubs Meat

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“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.”

Believe Has Beens Half Knowledge Subjects Fellows Useless Other Half Handy

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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.”

Men Hard Chance Praise Hard Words

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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.”

Truth Youth Lies

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