W. Clement Stone

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect.

The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Fortune knocks at every man’s door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Our own life has to be our message.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

It is possible to be free and loving no matter what your circumstances.

At 70 years old, if I could give my younger self one piece of advice, It would be to use the phrase ‘f**k off’ much more frequently.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help: the rest is cruelty, not justice.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.