Roger Ward Babson

Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. Embrace that label – being an outsider is fine, embrace the label – because it’s the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference.

If you want to earn more, learn more.

Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

Think Big and make it happen.

It’s easy to say no! when there’s a deeper yes! burning inside.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.