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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say “No,” though all the world say “Yes.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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I grow old learning something new every day.
SolonSolon In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano A day that I don’t learn something new is a wasted day.
B. B. KingB. B. King Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
Chuck BerryChuck Berry Each day grow older, and learn something new.
SolonSolon You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
SophoclesSophocles May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day.
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