The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow. — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends. — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them. — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
