Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Arnold Glasow (American Businessman)

Arnold Henry Glasow (1905–98) was a humorist and a successful American businessman whose famous adages appeared in major publications.

Glasow was born in Fond-du-lac, Wisconsin, and graduated from Ripon College. Following the Great Depression, Glasow moved to Freeport, Illinois, and started a humor magazine that he marketed to businesses all over the country. He encouraged his customers to use his magazine as their “house organ” to send to their customers.

At age 92, he published his first book, Glasow’s Gloombusters, using one of the many titles he put to his work during his career. He was a regular contributor to the Reader’s Digest humor pages.

READ: Works by Arnold Glasow

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Labor

In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Football, Goals

Twist the dial during an election year and you hear someone twisting the truth.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Politics

Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Quotations, Friendship, Integrity

You’ll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worse that can happen to you.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Worry, Accepting The Worst

It’s only by the hard blows of adverse fortune that character is tooled.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Character

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we’re ready for it.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Future, The Future

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow

You’re immature if you can’t accept reality or responsibility.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Youth

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold Glasow

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Adversity

Patriotism is collective responsibility.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Patriotism

Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Goals, Ambition, Success, Enthusiasm

You can’t shut out the world without shutting yourself in.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: World

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold Glasow

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow

There is no reward for finding fault.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Faults

Conceit is the quicksand of success.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Pride

Half a psychiatrist’s patients see him because they are married—the other half because they’re not.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Psychiatry

People are happier at Yuletime because they take the milk of human kindness out of the deep freeze.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Holidays

Statesmen stand out because politicians are as alike as peas.
Arnold Glasow

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
Arnold Glasow

Don’t part company with your ideals. They are anchors in a storm.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Ideals

Nothing lasts forever—not even your troubles.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Trouble

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Ideas

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Action, Ideas

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Arnold Glasow

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
Arnold Glasow

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold Glasow

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Advice

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