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ShareNewspaperman, Harold Coffin had a great way of putting things. He left behind a legacy of memorable and insightful quotes. He was a humorist and columnist for The Associated Press from 1962 to 1975. You may remember his newspaper column called “Coffin’s Needle.”
“Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.”
“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own.”
“A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.”
“Behind every successful man you’ll find a woman who has nothing to wear.”
“Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.”
“In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.”
“One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.”
“The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.”
“The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that’s retroactive.”
“When the product is right, you don’t have to be a great marketer.”
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