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"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."
"If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves; the critic stands still, and is passed by."
"Conceit is God's gift to little men."
"Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind."
"Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world."
"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things."
"We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success."
"If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped."
"It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness."
"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand."
"As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse."
"No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man."
"Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls."
"There are no little things."
"Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house."
"Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business."
"Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work."
"The faults of advertising are only those common to all human institutions. If advertising speaks to a thousand in order to influence one, so does the church. And if it encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony. Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising. In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times they have to."
"Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them."
"Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln."