“He did not say, “I will work there for a few months, and if I get no encouragement, I will quit and get a job somewhere else.” He did say, “I will start anywhere. I will do anything Edison tells me to do, but before I am through, I will be his associate.” He did not say, “I will keep my eyes open for another opportunity, in case I fail to get what I want in the Edison organization.” He said, “There is but one thing in this world that I am determined to have, and that is a business association with Thomas A. Edison. I will burn all bridges behind me, and stake my entire future on my ability to get what I want.” He left himself no possible way of retreat. He had to win or perish!”
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“Awake, arise, and assert yourself, you dreamers of the world.”
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“Power is organized effort, as has already been stated! Success is based upon power!”
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“One of the largest industrial companies, the leader in its field, in writing to Mr. Moore concerning prospective seniors at the college, said: “‘ We are interested primarily in finding men who can make exceptional progress in management work. For this reason we emphasize qualities of character, intelligence and personality far more than specific educational background.”
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“Fear of poverty is a state of mind, nothing else! But it is sufficient to destroy one’s chances of achievement in any undertaking, a truth which became painfully evident during the depression.”
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“You may as well know, also that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.
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“Plain, unemotional words do not influence the subconscious mind. You will get no appreciable results until you learn to reach your subconscious mind with thoughts, or spoken words which have been well emotionalized with BELIEF.”
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“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE.”
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“If you know your own mind, you know enough to keep it always positive.”
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“your poverty is serving no one. If you’re a charitable person, you’d be a whole lot more charitable if you had lots of money.”
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“nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith.”
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“No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.”
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“He recalled, too, his mistake in having stopped only three feet from gold. “But,” he said, “that experience was a blessing in disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.”
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“Before you can achieve success in the higher and broader sense you must gain such thorough control over yourself that you will be a person of poise.”
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“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
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