W. Clement Stone

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don’t need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?

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.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

There’s always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

If I had to select one quality and one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick persistence I and determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, “Here comes number seventy one”.

In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

I’ve always won, and I’m going to continue to win. And that’s the way it is.

Whenever I hear it can’t be done, I know I am close to success.

Losing is tough.

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

I thought I’d be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris. It was just inconceivable to me I couldn’t win it all.

If you want to double your success rate, you need to double your failure rate.

People who are fools don’t get successful, and they don’t get to be successful if they are worried about their popularity.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

I don’t cheat to win, I’d rather lose.

You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.