Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
ELBERT HUBBARDYou can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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