The disciplined are free.
It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.
We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven’t ordered wanted goods into your store.
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople.
Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.
Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.
What I mean is you make the world less ugly just by living in it.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way up from street-car pickpockets to municipal robbers and Government defaulters, and show them how amusing it is to arrest them and try them and then turn them loose – some for cash and some for political influence. We can make them ashamed of their simple and primitive justice. We can make that little bunch of sleepy islands the hottest corner on earth, and array it in the moral splendor of our high and holy civilization. Annexation is what the poor islanders need. Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing –to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.
We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.