Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbardwas an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Presently Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short publication A Message to Garcia. He and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth19 June 1859
CountryUnited States of America
Luck is tenacity of purpose.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously.
I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
Live truth instead of professing it.
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
Growth is often a painful process.