George Horace Lorimer Quotes

I lost my computer business when I was 29 because I gave credit to firms I didn't investigate. I lost my house and had to move back in with my parents and then I lived in an office for six months.

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

We would be billionaires, but we took responsibility for Summa's failure.

We've all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich but are broke by nightfall.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

I just worry because I know I say a lot, often. It doesn't bother me, it's more about the people that get affected around me.

Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things.

You're out of business!

This trial has developed in the most remarkable manner, the insane love of speaking among public men. We are wading knee deep in words, words, words ….

I talk a lot, and that is probably exhausting.

Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There's a huge difference between writing and thinking.

Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.

Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

I don't know anything about bankrupting four companies. Here's a guy that inherited $200 million. If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now? Selling watches in Manhattan.

Some days I regret wording things the way I did in the heat of the moment.

In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy.

I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them.

I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'Indeed, sir?

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.