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. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share
If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse;… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share
There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit,… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share
