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
Elbert Hubbard quotes about
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
Habit: The great economizer of energy.
People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.
Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.
Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.
Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.
Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.
Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.
Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is