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Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.
George Horace Lorimer
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George Horace Lorimer
Age: 70 †
Born: 1867
Born: October 6
Died: 1937
Died: October 22
Journalist
Louisville
Kentucky
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The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.
George Horace Lorimer
After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.
George Horace Lorimer
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
George Horace Lorimer
When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.
George Horace Lorimer
When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.
George Horace Lorimer
There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.
George Horace Lorimer
A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.
George Horace Lorimer
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Horace Lorimer
In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity tomorrow some other fellow's.
George Horace Lorimer
Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.
George Horace Lorimer
Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.
George Horace Lorimer
The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.
George Horace Lorimer
If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament.
George Horace Lorimer
You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.
George Horace Lorimer
Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
George Horace Lorimer
What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.
George Horace Lorimer
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
George Horace Lorimer
Having money and buying things with money is a good thing. But also do not forget to check occasionally to lose if you do not buy anything with money or not
George Horace Lorimer
Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.
George Horace Lorimer
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
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