Harsh Quotes by George Horace Lorimer

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.

— George Horace Lorimer

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…

— George Horace Lorimer

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…

— George Horace Lorimer

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…

— George Horace Lorimer

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…

— George Horace Lorimer

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

— George Horace Lorimer

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the…

— George Horace Lorimer

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.

— George Horace Lorimer

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

— George Horace Lorimer

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…

— George Horace Lorimer

When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.

— George Horace Lorimer

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

— George Horace Lorimer