Charles W. Eliot Quotes

"Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."
-Charles W. Eliot

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."
-Charles W. Eliot in Books quotes.

"The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry."
-Charles W. Eliot in America quotes.

"All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties."
-Charles W. Eliot in Business quotes.

"Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others."
-Charles W. Eliot

"In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress."
-Charles W. Eliot

"The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself."
-Charles W. Eliot