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"Knowledge talks, wisdom listens"
"Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your
heart"
"Criticizing is easy, art is difficult"
"Be
wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so"
"He
who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened"
"The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them"
"The best things in life are not things"
"Words are just words and without heart they have no meaning"
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them
feel"
"Wisdom is knowing the truth, and telling it"
"The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday
experience"
"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons"
"If
you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you
will remember"
"If
you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through"
"Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed!"
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things
brought together"
"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as
greater than he is"
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be
overcome"
"A
man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot
answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve"
"To
be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment"
"We
always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune"
"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by
committees or companies"
"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the
buck or coming back with excuses"
"The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person
doesn't like to do"
"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can
do that"
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak
results"
"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm"
"You don't have to be a big man to be a great man"
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow"
"The
steeper the mountain the harder the climb the better the view from the
finishing line"
"It is
our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities
do not exist"
"What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail"
"When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how
improbable... is possible"
"It
is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final"
"Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and
believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are"
"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is
often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is
possible"
"Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's
mind"
"The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief"
"Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in
whatever you do"
"No
man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral
well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper
reward"
"It
is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely
try to help another without helping himself"
"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration,
Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication"
"A
man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to
believe he has something that they want"
"In
business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are
promises, but only performance is reality"
"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately
own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion"
"A
business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business"
"The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising
sooner or later finds itself immune to business"
"Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but
living"
"Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation"
"As
a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth"
"If
you don't drive your business you will be driven out of business"
"You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in
business what a man doesn't know does hurt"
"Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses"
"Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the
future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight"
"A
word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise
after success"
"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of
his character"
"Every individual is the architect of his own fortune"
"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases
the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her"
"Money is something you got to make in case you don't die"
"Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in
years"
"If
money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so
properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him"
"A
grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of
wisdom"
"It
requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a
great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to
keep it"
"Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how
to spend it"
"After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer"
"This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast
down by it, but make the best of it, and always look forward for better
things, for conditions more prosperous"
"Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?"
"Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to
inherit the earth"
"The right name is an advertisement in itself"
"Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on"
"Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves
superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are
superior to them"
"No
matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory"
"Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is
cheap in deeds"
"A
good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who
plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was
never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward"
"The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the
wrong reason"
"The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to
die"
"Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot
tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What
we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives"
"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing
great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor
and good sense"
"I
do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any
kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even
nature"
"A
man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits"
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were
to success when they gave up"
My fun copywriting
quiz is here
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