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
If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion
The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.
The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.
Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.