THE CREATION OF SUCCESS Success doesn't happen. It is organized, preempted, captured by concentrated common sense. Frances E. Willard
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THE MARK OF REAL SUCCESS You are not really successful until someone claims he sat beside you in school.
LOSING THE WAR We lost because we told ourselves we lost. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
57 RULES FOR SUCCESS First, deliver the goods. Second, the other 56 do not matter.
WHERE TO SUCCEED The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have. Charles M. Schwab
ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS The road to success is rough. You have to pave it yourself. Forbes
THE AIM Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein
THE NUMBERS ON SUCCESS Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen, also
FIRST IN LINE President Woodrow Wilson had a lively sense of humor. Early James, Director of the Wilson House Museum in Washington, D. C., says the following story fits the Wilson personality and is very…
THE NAMED AND THE NAMELESS Walter Luthi has written: "God has a name. The misery on the earth is nameless, the evil among men is nameless, for the powers of darkness love to be without…
PEOPLE WHO NEED PEOPLE One of the priceless programs in the Andy Griffith TV Show occurred in the early life of the series. Following the death of his wife, Sheriff Andy Taylor decided to invite…
THE REAL-LIFE TEST OF COMPASSION Clifton Fadiman, in The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes, tells a story about Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian-born novelist who achieved popular success with his novels Lolita (1955), Pale Fir (1962)…
SOUND FAMILIAR? "The budget should be balanced. The treasury should be refilled. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officials should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest…
FACT AND FAITH A pastor was speaking to his people on the relationship between fact and faith. He said, "That you are sitting before me in this church -- is fact. That I am standing…
A STRATEGY FOR LIFE You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking, and getting well-hammered yourself. George Bernard Shaw, as reported in Forbes.
AMAZING, BUT TRUE Professor Lowell of Harvard University was speaking many years ago to a gathering on Columbus Day. He said that there were three profound things about Christopher Columbus' discovery of America: First, when…
AND THEN BACK TO BUSINESS Martin Marty calls this one of the saddest sentences in modern times. It occurs in a journal kept by America's once-richest man, land- investor, oil magnate J. Paul Getty: "He…
AMAZING VIRTUOSITY An interviewer asked Victor Borge if he played any other musical instruments. Borge replied, "Well, yes, I have another piano." Bits & Pieces
BAD DAY You know it's going to be a bad day when your teen-ager knocks on your bedroom door first thing in the morning and says, "Today is Nerd Day at school, Pop. Can I…
THE THREE THIEVES Zig Ziglar, well-known motivational speaker tells the following story of three thieves: I'd like to introduce you to three thieves that I know. The first thief is a man named Emanuel Nenger.…
