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George Horace Lorimer was an outstanding American journalist, born on October 6, 1867, and died on October 22, 1937. He had a profound impact on the field of journalism, known for his keen insight and deep understanding of the value of news.

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Famous George Horace Lorimer Quotes

“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

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: 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.”

Thinking Men Money Millions Knowing Ought Fellows Specialty

Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“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.”

Men Want Giving Years Kind Found Fun Work Pay Enemy He Man Fellows Shining Satisfaction Forty Dislike Harsh Wages Acquaintance

Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“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

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“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.”

Men Two Might Fellows

Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“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.”

Knows Men Stills Letting Go Touched Oaks

Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“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.”

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“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.”

Men Humans Hands Faces Hours Animal He Man Clothes Areas Human Animal

Book:Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

Source: Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

“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.”

Men Secret Management Good Man

Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“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.”

Men World Should Stills Week This World Fellows Bills Woods Hats Now And Then Coats Plugs

Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.”

Men Book Brain Dead Man

Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More 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.”

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

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: 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.”

Men Hands Mistake Fellows Excuse Same Mistakes Carelessness

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“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.”

Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“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.”

Men Listening Fellows Flattering

Book:Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Source: Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

“The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.”

Knows Men World Right Thing Right Thing To Say

Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

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

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“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.”

Ifs Men May Mean States Type Accounts Method Excuse Doctrine Peculiar Ministry Temperament Baptists Adapted Corresponding Methodists Episcopalians

Author:George Horace Lorimer

“Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.”

Knows Men Asks Can Do

Book:Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“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.”

Men Needs Self Helping Individual Students College Tasks Aim

Author: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.”

Men Believe Lying Silence He Man Speech Silent Wounds Believe In Me Lightning Preaching Sympathetic Bleeding Stunned Lying Men Comforter Smitten

Author: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.”

Men Hard Chance Praise Hard Words

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

About the Author

Born: October 6, 1867
Died: October 22, 1937
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 63

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