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The big things that come our way are ... the fruit of seeds planted in the daily routine of our work.
Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.
If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
Only the man who can impose discipline on himself is fit to discipline others or can impose discipline on others.
The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.
The superiority of the American system is eloquently proved by the pressure of people who want to crash our borders.
In many lines of wok, it isn't how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.
The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.
Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.
A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.
Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.
In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
We all know that the nation can't divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that's how we get ahead.
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
The way to get ahead is to start now. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now and that you would not have known next year if you had waited.
Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.
Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else.
Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.
A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.
Deliver me from all evildoers that talk nothing but sickness and failure. Grant me the companionship of men who think success and men who work for it. Loan me associates who cheerfully face the problems of a day and try hard to overcome them. Relieve me of all cynics and critics. Give me good health and the strength to be of real service to the world, and I'll get all that's good for me, and will what's left to those who want it.