It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
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. — 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
