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With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.


When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.


No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.


A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.


Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.


Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.


It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.


All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.


Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.


The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'


There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.


Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.


We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.


To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.


Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.


There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.


Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.


Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.



There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.