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… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
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… — 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
