Quote Me on This: The Wit and Wisdom of Coleman Cox (Paperback or Softback)

A Great Book of Quips and Quotations

This book is 300 pages of one-liners, stories, quips, and wisdom.

One cannot collect great quotations for very long without finding some great one-liners by Coleman Cox.

His favorite topic is sales, but he also covers business in general and life in general.

Cox s writing started in 1921 when he decided to print up a small paper booklet with a thick paper cover. As he tells it, this booklet consisted of a few hundred paragraphs telling something of my experiences and observations during thirty years of active business life.

He gave away a few thousand of these booklets. After that he received hundreds of letters requesting multiple copies of the booklet. So he printed a second edition, which sold out before the printing was complete.

After that the booklet quickly went to a third, fourth, fifth printing, and beyond.

Within ten months, Take It From Me, the first booklet, had sold millions of copies. So, in 1922 Cox came out with another brilliant collection of witticisms. Every copy was sold out before the printing of the first edition was complete.

It didn t take long for Cox to realize that these millions of little booklets were being purchased by business owners as gifts for their employees and clients. Because Cox could easily print off small runs, he offered to print up booklets with a customized message in the front. These messages are often quite heartfelt and are obviously written by business owners striving for a better world.

In one customized copy of Just Plain Talk, O.R. Peterson writes to his clients:

"We have come to realize that we owe each other some expression for whatever success we have attained and possibly this little book will mean quite as much to you as it does to us."

Cox s little paragraphs are inspiring and entertaining. Turn to any page and you ll find yourself flipping through several more. You ll be asking yourself What will he say next?

At the same time, although these words are from eight decades ago, they ring true today. Other than the fact that business is no longer completely dominated by men, almost nothing here is outdated.

I m sure you ll find a great deal to enjoy here. And you ll be quoting Coleman Cox for a long time to come.

"It is my hope that some one or more of my little paragraphs will have something to do with the making of your tomorrows more happy and successful than your yesterdays."
- Coleman Cox

Editor s Introduction By Karl W. Palachuk

Welcome to the Coleman Cox collection, produced by Great Little Book Publishing Co., Inc. We are very pleased and honored to be reprinting this material.

Coleman Cox is an intriguing character. He is both inspiring and humorous. One can easily imagine him handing out sage advice with a smirk on his face. I imagine him to be a great story-teller and a wonderful dinner guest.

I first stumbled upon Coleman Cox because of one of my hobbies. I love great quotations. That s why my Relax Focus Succeed® web site is filled with them. I sprinkle them in my newsletter and post them on the Pith Page at Relax Focus Succeed.

One cannot collect great quotations for very long without finding some great one-liners by Coleman Cox. His favorite topic is sales, but he also covers business in general and life in general.

After stumbling across his quotes time and time again, I decided to go looking for his books. But I didn t find books; I found booklets. Lots and lots of booklets. Cox s titles were short and pithy, like most of his quotes. The titles included Take It From Me, Listen to This, and Just Plain Talk.

Cox s writing started in 1921 when he decided to print up a small paper booklet with a thick paper cover. As he tells it, this booklet consisted of a few hundred paragraphs telling something of my experiences and observations during thirty years of active business life.

He gave away a few thousand of these booklets. After that he received hundreds of letters requesting multiple copies of the booklet. So he printed a second edition, which sold out before the printing was complete.

After that the booklet quickly went to a third, fourth, fifth printing, and beyond.

Within ten months, Take It From Me, the first booklet, had sold millions of copies. So, in 1922 Cox came out with another brilliant collection of witticisms. Every copy was sold out before the printing of the first edition was complete.

It didn t take long for Cox to realize that these millions of little booklets were being purchased by business owners as gifts for their employees and clients. Because Cox could easily print off small runs, he offered to print up booklets with a customized message in the front. These messages are often quite heartfelt and are obviously written by business owners striving for a better world.

In one customized copy of Just Plain Talk, O.R. Peterson writes to his clients:
"We have come to realize that we owe each other some expression for whatever success we have attained and possibly this little book will mean quite as much to you as it does to us."

Cox s little paragraphs are inspiring and entertaining. Turn to any page and you ll find yourself flipping through several more. You ll be asking yourself What will he say next?

At the same time, although these words are from eight decades ago, they ring true today. Other than the fact that business is no longer completely dominated by men, almost nothing here is outdated.

Occasionally there s a reference to the young ladies that wouldn t fly too far in modern conversation. But virtually everything else fits very well in our society.

I have removed only a few paragraphs, and modernized only a dozen or so. The remainder is just as Cox wrote it more than eighty years ago.

I m sure you ll find a great deal to enjoy here. And you ll be quoting Coleman Cox for a long time to come.