Quotes from 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

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

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

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.