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
Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.
The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
A form of self-delusion.
Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
Conformists die, but heretics live forever.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
Blessed is the man who has found someone to do his work.
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.
Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.