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 you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.
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.
God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
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.
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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.