W. Clement Stone
38 quotes
Biography
"Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying."
"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement."
"Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again."
"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?"
"Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met."
"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."
"Prayer is man's greatest power!"
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve"
"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto."
"When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it."
"I feel healthy! I feel happy I feel terrific"
"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."
"All I want to do is change the world!"
"Be generous! Give to those whom you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate; yes — give especially to those to whom you don’t want to give."
"Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give — the more you will have!"
"Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) — and you’ll smile and receive smiles..."
"Give a kind word (with a kindly thought behind the word) — you will be kind and receive kind words."
"Give time for a worthy cause (with eagerness) — you will be worthy and richly rewarded."
"Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful."
"Give encouragement (the incentive to action) — you will have courage and be encouraged."
"Give a pleasant response (the neutralizer of irritants) — you will be pleasant and receive pleasant responses."
"Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) — you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you."
"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."
"Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving."
"Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect."