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
Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.
The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.
I believe in salvation through economic, social, and spiritual freedom.
Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.
An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right
A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.
Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.
What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.
Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.
I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.