The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.' — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The first part of success is 'Get-to-it-iveness'; the second part of success is 'Stick-to-it-iveness'. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame - manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Mr. Arthur Brisbane says: "One thing above all brings success—to like your work and to be interested in it; and not to… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“You cannot look into a cradle and read the secret message traced by a divine hand and wrapped up in that bit… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The greatest thing a man can possibly do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Never allow yourself to dwell on your weaknesses, your failures, your unhappy condition. Hold firmly the ideal of your efficiency, your competency,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“It is not the possession of money that constitutes wealth, that gives the highest satisfaction, and awakens the consciousness of noble achievement,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Every conquest in our work, in our lives, adds to our strength, gives us new power, because it gives additional self-confidence. It… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater! — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The tonic of success is a marvelous producer as well as stimulant. By the law of mental magnetism one success attracts another,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“I am success. Though hungry, cold, ill-clad, I wander for a while, and I smile and say: ‘It is but for a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“We can so educate the will power that it will focus the thoughts upon the bright side of things, and upon objects which elevate… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Gulliver was a giant whom the dwarfs captured while he was napping by binding him with tiny threads. Each thread was a trifle which… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The hatred thought cannot live an instant in the presence of the love thought.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“About as poor business as one can engage in is that of going through life with one's eyes so fixed upon what others have,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead;” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
