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"No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people."
"Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind."
"Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity."
"The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'."
"Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it."
"Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure."
"You know, it's not more knowledge, it's not more education, it's not more facts that we need. It's a better use of what we already have that we need to have. You have each and every one of you, within your potential power right now to do a wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it."
"Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth."
"The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel."
"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."
"Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself."
"Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine."
"The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination."
"Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat."
"The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind."
"If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like."
"If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't."
"Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time."
"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind."
"Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best."