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The quotations of

Gerald Stanley Lee

American minister and writer

1862–1944

6 quotes, most often on Success, Business and Character.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Often credited to T. S. Eliot
- Business
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Crowds (1913), Book V, Part III, Chapter XII.
- America
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
Crowds (1913), Book IV, Chapter X.
- Morality
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
Crowds (1913), Book II, Chapter XV.
- Character
- Success
A man’s success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
Crowds (1913), Book II, Chapter IX.
- Business
- Success
There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.
Crowds (1913), Book V, Part III, Chapter XVI.
- Character
- Fame

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