The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality… that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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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.
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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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Real 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.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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