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

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

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

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

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

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

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
Arnold Glasow

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

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
Arnold Glasow

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

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

The future is the past returning through another gate.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: The Future

Criticism is more effective when it sounds like praise.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Praise

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

Without the spur of competition we’d loaf out our life.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Competition

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

Two can give as cheap as one.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Giving

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Problems, Leadership

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

The best bet is to bet on yourself.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Confidence, Self-reliance

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

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

If you think you’re tops, you won’t do much climbing.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Achievements

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

Some folks believe liberty is doing as they please, but with controls on others.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Liberty

The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Respect

A good father lives so he is a credit to his children.
Arnold Glasow
Topics: Family

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

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
Arnold Glasow

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

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