Occupation: Journalist Birth: May 14, 1880 Death: May 6, 1954
You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are..
Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with Germany only in conjuncti….
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts….
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas..
J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, wi….
If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you..
The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and….
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress..
A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name. He quarrele….
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses..
The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railro….
How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an expl….
Real riches are the riches possessed inside..
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend..
Plan your work - work your plan.
Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they a….
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life ….
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert..
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin..
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result..
Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving..