Quotes by Publishers - Page 2

The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.
Margaret Anderson
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.
William Feather
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly too without a single stutter. Later he explained "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."
Bennett Cerf
If you expect nothing you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
Malcolm Forbes
After you're older two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Helen Gurley Brown
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving if you are friendly if you are helpful the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier
The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant we must think in limitless terms of abundance.
Thomas Dreier
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? ... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.
Thomas Dreier
If you're looking for perfection look in the mirror. If you find it there expect it elsewhere.
Malcolm Forbes
You can do anything you wish to do have anything you wish to have be anything you wish to be.
Robert Collier
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally. ... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? . . . You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.
Thomas Dreier
That they may have a little peace even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
William Feather
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E. V. Lucas
Do each daily task the best we can act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
William Feather
We all find time to do what we really want to do.
William Feather
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.
James Gordon Bennett
Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.
William Randolph Hearst
The next time it begins to rain ... lie down on your belly nestle your chin into the grass and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall . . . The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world.
Malcolm Margolin
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
William Feather
Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.
H. G. Bohn
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
Laurence Ferlinghetti
Tolerance is a tremendous virtue but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
Sir James Goldsmith
I'm frank brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank I look frank.
Lord Thomson
When I want a peerage I shall buy one like an honest man.
Lord Northcliffe
In real love you want the other person's good.
Margaret Anderson
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
E. V. Lucas
If this world affords true happiness it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years where the necessities of life come without severe strain where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
A. Edward Newton
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
William Feather
The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.
A. Edward Newton
Those who seek happiness miss it and those who discuss it lack it.
Holbrook Jackson
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
William Feather
Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.
Holbrook Jackson
The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.
A. Edward Newton
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
Leonard Woolf
If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.
William Feather
Nearly every glamorous wealthy successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlepp.
Helen Gurley Brown
You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.
Helen Gurley Brown
One of these days is none of these days.
H. G. Bohn
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
William Feather
Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.
William Feather
The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea.
William Benton
The way to get ahead is to start now.
William Feather
Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.
William Feather
When we hurt each other we should write it down in the sand so the winds of forgiveness can make it go away for good. When we help each other we should chisel it in stone lest we never forget the love of a friend.
Christian H. Godefroy
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm Forbes
Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me I kind of sit back and feel well if I give this enough time it'll turn out that this was good so I shan't worry about it too much.
William Gaines
Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.
H. G. Bohn
Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always make you less than you are.
Malcolm Forbes
Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory.
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katherine Graham
How to succeed: Try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.
Malcolm Forbes
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
James Gordon Bennett
Ah how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!
Amelia Jenks Bloomer
People who never get carried away should be.
Malcolm Forbes
Socialism has been preached for so long the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.
Lord Thomson of Fleet
England is a nation of voyeurs.
Nigel Newton