I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting… — 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… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
... 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
