Charles William Eliot (1834–1926) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard’s president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served until 1909, having the longest term as president in the university’s history. He was a cousin of the Nobel Prize-winning poet T.S. Eliot.
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The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.
—Charles William Eliot
Topics: Confidence, Self-reliance
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
—Charles William Eliot
Topics: Doubt, Beliefs, Uncertainty, Business
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.
—Charles William Eliot
Topics: Value of Time, Time Management
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
—Charles William Eliot
Topics: Books, Friendship, Book
You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.
—Charles William Eliot
Topics: Work
Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.
—Charles William Eliot
Topics: Education
Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.
—Charles William Eliot
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