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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
There are no little things.
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
A man may be down, but he is never out.
When you're through changing you're through.
When you're through changing, you're through.
When you are through changing, you are through.
If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.
Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.
The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.
In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.
As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world.
If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.
The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.
When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.
Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.
My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.
Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.
I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.
If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me.
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.
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
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.
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.
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.
The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.
I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.
Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
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.
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
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.
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.
Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.
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.
Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society.
