“I want you to learn right at the outset not to play with the spoon before you take the medicine. Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible. Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there’s only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.”
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“It is good to have things that money can buy but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.”
George Horace Lorimer“Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.”
George Horace Lorimer“Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure until he's dead or loses his courage - and that's the same thing.”
George Horace Lorimer“Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.”
George Horace Lorimer“It's 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 that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.”
George Horace Lorimer“I want you to learn right at the outset not to play with the spoon before you take the medicine. Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible. Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there’s only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.”
George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son“It has been my experience that, even when a man has a sense of humor, it only really carries him to the point where he will join in a laugh at the expense of the other fellow.”
George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son“There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.”
George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son“I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought”
but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.