Herbert V. Prochnow
Herbert V. Prochnow
Herbert Victor Prochnowwas a U.S. banking executive, noted toastmaster, and author during the middle 20th century. As Vice President of the First National Bank of Chicago, Prochnow wrote several popular books on public speaking. He also wrote epigrams and anecdotes that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and Reader's Digest...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 May 1897
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational home night
Maybe more youngsters would stay home at nights if they were not afraid to stay alone at nights.
couple home onions
A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.
love funny happy-birthday
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
men inexperience impossible
Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.
family laziness helping
There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.
horse feel-better firsts
There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off.
business decision made
When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
memories men self
There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.
business needs bankers
A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.
thinking two unhappy
A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.
loyalty real adversity
A real friend will not visit you in prosperity unless he is invited, but when you are in adversity he will call without invitation.
shoes sand footprint
If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.
trying toil bent
Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.
freedom responsibility opportunity
We have come to world leadership because our people have had the opportunity to develop this nation under a government and a Constitution that gave them political freedom and encouraged initiative, enterprise, responsibility, industry and thrift. Freedom and achievement are not unrelated. This nation has become one of history's finest illustrations of how a people can enrich life and raise their whole level of economic well-being when they are given justice, liberty and incentive.