A positively spiteful attitude is a beautiful thing
/A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright
Very little is known about Herm Albright, the man credited for this quote.
He may have been a painter and lithographer, born on January 29, 1876 in Mannheim, Germany. If so, Albright emigrated to the United States and settled in San Francisco in 1905. He held a job with the Paul Elder Book Company for 25 years and died on September 21, 1944.
Regardless of the sketchy detail surrounding his life, I can tell you one thing for certain about Herm Albright:
Based upon this quote, we would have gotten along famously.