In preparing for this column, I was leafing through my copy of “The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard.”
He was a good friend of Dale Carnegie and the author of thousands of creative thoughts that are today the mainstays of best business practices. Here are some of Hubbard's thoughts:
• Prepared people do not have to hunt for a position, the position hunts for them.
• No man can attain the highest success until he has reached a point where he does not care for it.
• Brawn is usually purchased at the expense of brain.
• We have a surplus of clever individuals; but for the faithful men who are loyal to a trust there is a crying demand.
• Do your work with a whole heart and you will succeed, there is so little competition.
• You are what you think, and not what you think you are.
• How beautiful it is that most of our troubles never happen.
• Initiative is originality in motion.
• When three men join forces, make no mistake, power is never equally divided.
• If you can write well, do not talk, leave that to the man who can do nothing else.
• Lazy men are just as useless as dead ones, and they take up more room.
• The devil sent us to our relatives, but thank heaven we can choose our friends for ourselves.
• The value of education lies in the struggle to get it. Do too much for people and they will do nothing for themselves.
• The man who can laugh at himself, and who is not anxious to have the last word, is right in the suburbs of greatness.
• Money may use its jimmy to break into the upper circles, but to beauty, grace and talent that does not shiver nor shrink, all doors fly open.
• The way to secure friends is to be one.
• Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.
These were just a few thoughts from a great motivator and philosopher. Remember that most of his philosophies were written nearly l00 years ago.
Hubbard and his wife, Alice Moore, were killed when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915. Ironically, they were sailing to Germany to interview German Kaiser Wilhelm.
He was a good friend of Dale Carnegie and the author of thousands of creative thoughts that are today the mainstays of best business practices. Here are some of Hubbard's thoughts:
• Prepared people do not have to hunt for a position, the position hunts for them.
• No man can attain the highest success until he has reached a point where he does not care for it.
• Brawn is usually purchased at the expense of brain.
• We have a surplus of clever individuals; but for the faithful men who are loyal to a trust there is a crying demand.
• Do your work with a whole heart and you will succeed, there is so little competition.
• You are what you think, and not what you think you are.
• How beautiful it is that most of our troubles never happen.
• Initiative is originality in motion.
• When three men join forces, make no mistake, power is never equally divided.
• If you can write well, do not talk, leave that to the man who can do nothing else.
• Lazy men are just as useless as dead ones, and they take up more room.
• The devil sent us to our relatives, but thank heaven we can choose our friends for ourselves.
• The value of education lies in the struggle to get it. Do too much for people and they will do nothing for themselves.
• The man who can laugh at himself, and who is not anxious to have the last word, is right in the suburbs of greatness.
• Money may use its jimmy to break into the upper circles, but to beauty, grace and talent that does not shiver nor shrink, all doors fly open.
• The way to secure friends is to be one.
• Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.
These were just a few thoughts from a great motivator and philosopher. Remember that most of his philosophies were written nearly l00 years ago.
Hubbard and his wife, Alice Moore, were killed when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915. Ironically, they were sailing to Germany to interview German Kaiser Wilhelm.