The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
ORISON SWETT MARDENBegin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThere 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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENReal happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
ORISON SWETT MARDENA 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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENOur 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 MARDENTalk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWe lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
ORISON SWETT MARDENPut the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
ORISON SWETT MARDENPessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
ORISON SWETT MARDENGood cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
ORISON SWETT MARDENHow can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
ORISON SWETT MARDENIf you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
ORISON SWETT MARDENNo man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWe cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN