W. Clement Stone

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

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

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

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

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

We have a problem. Congratulations. But it’s a tough problem. Then double congratulations.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Energy doesn’t lie so trust those vibes you’re getting.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city polish on a man, but by golly, it seems you can’t ever rub it off him.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.