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If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs read more
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or
can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs,
than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his
house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law,
people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort
to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the
prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey
into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or
can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious
songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept:
the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and
tens and fifties to his door.
Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.
Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west,
nor from the south.
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west,
nor from the south.
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of read more
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and
there abide, the huge world will come round read more
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and
there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.