A man should never neglect his family for business.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.
The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."
My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.
The American business man cannot consider his work done when he views the income balance in black at the end of an accounting period. It is necessary for him to trace the social incidence of the figures that appear in his statement and prove to the general public that his management has not only been profitable in the accounting sense but salutary in terms of popular benefits.
The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.
I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to sell needles, thread and buttons. He soon found the people did not want them, and his small stock was thrown back on his hands. Then he said wisely, "I'll not buy any more of these goods, but I'll go and ask people what they do want." Thereafter he studied the needs and desires of people, found out just what they most wanted, endeavored to meet those wants, and became the greatest business man of his time.
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