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One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.

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Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness.

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If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.

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People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise.

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The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.

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No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

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We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.

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It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

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Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?

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There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.

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A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

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Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

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Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea.

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Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

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You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

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Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

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The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.

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No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

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Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.

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If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

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There is some one thing that you can do better than anyone else in the world could do it. Search until you find out what this particular line of endeavor is, then organize all of your forces and attack it with the belief that you are going to win.

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One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

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I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

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Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth

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The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.

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No person with a grievance can be also a person with an attractive personality!

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One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

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If you were your own employer, would you be entirely satisfied with the day's work you have done today?

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Those who can't take directions graciously have no business giving them

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The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

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