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
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Luck is tenacity of purpose.
Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.