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
A form of self-delusion.
Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!
Conformists die, but heretics live forever.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.
If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.
Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.
Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.
The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.