... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity, combined with extreme ignorance of conditions the knowledge of which is the very A B C of business… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share
... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents. — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes. — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts. — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
