a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.
Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.
For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.
I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.
One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.
In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith. . . . Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.
Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.
Perhaps nothing in all my business has helped me more than faith in my fellow man. From the very first I felt confident that I could trust the great, friendly public. So I told it quite simply what I thought, what I felt, what I was trying to do. And the response was quick, sure, and immediate.
The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.
In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.
Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.
. . . the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.
Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations. . . . Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education.
That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty
Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.
Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.
Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.