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
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.
Success is voltage under control-keeping one hand on the transformer of your Kosmic Kilowatts.
The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
Life is just one damned thing after another.
No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.