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
Applause is the only appreciated interruption.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Praise
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Labor
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
—Arnold Glasow
People are happier at Yuletime because they take the milk of human kindness out of the deep freeze.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Holidays
Twist the dial during an election year and you hear someone twisting the truth.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Politics
Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Weight
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Fear, One liners, Anxiety
A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Advice
Statesmen stand out because politicians are as alike as peas.
—Arnold Glasow
Laugh to forget, but don’t forget to laugh.
—Arnold Glasow
Some folks believe liberty is doing as they please, but with controls on others.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Liberty
You can’t shut out the world without shutting yourself in.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: World
Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Quotations, Friendship, Integrity
Half a psychiatrist’s patients see him because they are married—the other half because they’re not.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Psychiatry
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Ignorance
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
—Arnold Glasow
All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
—Arnold Glasow
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
—Arnold Glasow
The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we’re ready for it.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: The Future, Future
It doesn’t take great men to do things, but it is doing things that make men great.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Greatness
Most good resolutions start too late and end too soon.
—Arnold Glasow
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
It’s easier to see both sides of a question than the answer.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Questions
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: Accepting The Worst, Worry
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
—Arnold Glasow
Reprove privately, praise publicly.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Praise
In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Goals, Football
Most troubles arise from loafing when we should be working or talking when we should be listening.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Trouble
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
The big problem is not the haves and the have-nots—it’s the give-nots.
—Arnold Glasow
Improvement begins with I.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Helping
Make your life a mission—not an intermission.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Duty, One liners
The best bet is to bet on yourself.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Self-reliance, Confidence
The average vacation is one-tenth playing-nine-tenths paying.
—Arnold Glasow
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
—Arnold Glasow
If you think you’re tops, you won’t do much climbing.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Achievements
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Leadership, Problems
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Friends, Friendship
You’re immature if you can’t accept reality or responsibility.
—Arnold Glasow
Topics: Youth