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
Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Enthusiasm, Success, Goals, Ambition
The big problem is not the haves and the have-nots—it’s the give-nots.
—Arnold Glasow
Don’t part company with your ideals. They are anchors in a storm.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Ideals
The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we’re ready for it.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Future, The Future
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: One liners, Laughter
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Ideas
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
A good father lives so he is a credit to his children.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Family
Improvement begins with I.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Helping
Criticism is more effective when it sounds like praise.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Praise
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Friendship
It doesn’t take great men to do things, but it is doing things that make men great.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Greatness
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
—Arnold Glasow
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
—Arnold Glasow
Laugh to forget, but don’t forget to laugh.
—Arnold Glasow