Orison Swett
Orison Swett
motivational-business golden-rule daily-business
Put yourself in your customer's place.
excellence littles can-do
Superiority - doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.
law mind desire
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
work doors expectations
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
honesty live-life men
If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.
men self vision
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
success struggle achievement
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
self inspire trying
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
inspirational life fear
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.
hands mind excellence
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.
motivational nature environmental
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
inspirational motivational success
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
opportunity mind clients
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.
respect courage kings
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.