Orison Swett Marden

The golden rule for every businessman is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place.

He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves

The less you know, the more you believe.

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

I didn’t start a war. Nobody died.

We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.

What is the one thing that I could do to help you?

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

You generate the results in your life that you believe you deserve.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

If you don’t have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you’re looking back saying, I should’ve had a plan.