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
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
Grammar is the grave of letters.
When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it
The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what a certain spore was. Finally he said, "It is this, for if it isn't, then what is it?" And all during his life he was never able to forget that he had been guilty of this unscientific attitude, for science is founded on certitude, not assumption.
Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.
Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how
Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.