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
What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.
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.
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.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.
Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire
Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.