Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he met early success as a traveling salesman with the Larkin soap company. Today Hubbard is mostly known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short story A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.
Read more about Elbert Hubbard: Early Life, Religious and Political Beliefs, Roycroft, Conviction and Pardon, Death, Posthumous Renown, In Popular Culture, Selected List of Works
Famous quotes by elbert hubbard:
“Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyhow.”
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)
“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.”
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)
“Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.”
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)
“It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing—’Carry a message to Garcia!’”
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)
“Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.”
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)