A Message to Garcia (Condensed Classics): And Treasured Wisdom

By Elbert Hubbard and Mitch Horowitz

History’s Greatest Motivational Lesson is Now in a Definitive Edition with Gems of Wisdom from Elbert Hubbard This remarkably concise, powerful statement on what makes a person successful remains as relevant today as when it was written more than a century ago. If you take seriously the principle of Elbert Hubbard’s A Message to Garcia, you will become the indispensible, productive, successful, and respected person you have always wished to be. All that is required is for you to “carry a message to Garcia”—which means to do a job simply as it should be done. Discover for yourself the incredible power hidden in this simple step.

This edition of A Message to Garcia surpasses other volumes because it includes short passages of life-advice from Hubbard, which elucidate his message and demonstrate how to put it into action.< Selected and introduced by PEN Award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz, this slender volume offers a life-changing journey into a single idea that can make all the difference in your earning power, effectiveness, and success.

• Language: English
• Publisher: G&D Media
• Release date: Oct 9, 2018
• ISBN: 9781722520199

Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard was born in 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois. He was a writer, publisher, and artist who was an influential member of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His best-known work is the short publication A Message to Garcia.

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INTRODUCTION

The Message That Shook the World

This literary trifle, as author Elbert Hubbard described A Message to Garcia, may be the most important piece of practical philosophy that you ever encounter.

I call Hubbard’s writing uncommon commonsense. This is because his work conveys truths that we should know, and perhaps innately know, but have forgotten amid the calls of modern commerce to turn everything into short-term profit and to expect that every experience deliver entertainment and pleasure.

Hubbard intended his short essay as a guiding light to illuminate, very simply, what separates the few exceptional people from the mass of mediocrity. His core truth is: the hero is the man who does his work—thoroughly, energetically, and intelligently. The workplace hero does not make needless demands on others or require superfluous guidance and assistance; he does not deliver a job half-done or done only according to pro forma standards; but he does his work so that no one will have to fix it, embellish it, worry about it, or do it