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 pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!
Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.
Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.