Orison Swett Marden

We lift ourselves by our thoughts. We climb upon our vision of ourselves.

If I had asked them what they had wanted, they would have said a faster horse.

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

Owning a great golf course gives you great power.

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.

It was impossible to operate in the aluminium business without krysha – very real physical protection.

If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will.

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.

My mother was an entrepreneur… She found being on relief humiliating. She built this business from scratch… In 1951 my mother opened this store…

I’ve learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

Chris and I came from nothing. We’re selfmade. We started with nothing, so we have nothing to lose. And we have everything to gain.

A store’s best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

I don’t know the rules of grammar. If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.