Clement Stone Quotes

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.

Stones are raw, they blunt my paw, but words will never hurt me.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

Be careful the environment you choose, for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success—or are they holding you back? —Clement Stone

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

If you always do what you have always done, you will always be where you are right now" ~W. Clement Stone

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

Be generous. Give to those you love; give to those who love you, give to the fortunate, give to the unfortunate — yes, give especially to those you don’t want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

Keep your mind off the things you don't want by keeping it on the things you do want.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement

There is a little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is the attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful.

if there is something to win and nothing to lose from asking a question then ask whatever it takes

For every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Whatever the mind … can conceive it can achieve.” W. Clement Stone (1902–2002)

Decisions without actions are worthless Failure can be good for you Don't let mental walls block you in Direct your thoughts, control your emotions, ordain your destiny

God is always a good God; right is right; and with every disadvantage there is a greater advantage, if one seeks and finds it.

four basic causes of failure: sex, alcohol, deception, and stealing.

Universal laws always follow a pattern. Everything that moves or grows has a cycle and trend.

Whatever the mind can conceive...it can achieve

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you, like Karl Eller, don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

E. E. Bauermeister, supervisor of education and correctional counselor at California Institution for Men, Chino, California, who told the authors: “I always tell the men in our self-adjustment class that too often what we read and profess becomes a part of our libraries and our vocabularies, instead of becoming a part of our lives.

An insect may not be able to avoid being caught in the spider's web. And when once trapped, it is unable to free itself. There is one thing, however, over which each person has absolute, inherent control, and that is his mental attitude. We can avoid mental cobwebs. We can clear them. And we can sweep them away as they begin to develop. We can free ourselves when once enmeshed. And we can remain free.

Sometimes we have undesirable habits and we want to correct them. And there are times when we are strongly tempted to do wrong. Then, like an insect caught in a spider's web, we struggle to get free. Our conscious will is in conflict with our imagination and the will of our subconscious mind. The more we struggle, the more we become entrapped.

The Richest Man in Babylon:

Kebahagiaan sejati tidak terletak pada apa yang Anda peroleh, tetapi pada apa yang Anda berikan.

There seemed to be as much written about the art, and what the dialogue meant, as the paintings themselves. Clement Greenburg had been the first of many. It drove her crazy, the convoluted doubletalk of artist and medium and historian. Though she loved the process of creation and the images themselves, she found it difficult to put her thoughts into words.

When W. Clement Stone, an insurance magnate and philanthropist, gave $2 million to Richard M. Nixon’s 1972 campaign, it caused public outrage and contributed to a movement that produced the post-Watergate reforms in campaign financing.” Accounting for inflation, Balz estimated that Stone’s $2 million might be worth about $11 million in today’s dollars. In contrast, for the 2016 election, the political war chest accumulated by the Kochs and their small circle of friends was projected to be $889 million, completely dwarfing the scale of money that was considered deeply corrupt during the Watergate days.

A healthy character means developing a positive outlook on life no matter what serious situation you’re facing. Well-respected basketball coach John Wooden said, “Be more concerned about your character than your reputation. Your reputation is how others perceive you; your character is who you really are.” Character means having a healthy, positive attitude in the wake of job loss or any life challenge. Clement Stone said, “There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” Thomas Jefferson said, “Nothing can stop a person with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; but nothing on earth can help the person with the wrong mental attitude.

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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. —W. CLEMENT STONE

thinker W. Clement Stone used to teach, say the words I feel happy, I feel healthy, I feel terrific.

Are the things around you helping you toward success—or are they holding you back? — W. Clement Stone

One way to make a fortune is to sell a necessity that is low in cost and repeats. The fortune is made in the repeat business.

Ask advice from the man who can help you.

decisiones no seguidas de acciones no sirven para nada. El fracaso puede serle útil. No se deje encerrar dentro de muros mentales. Encauce sus pensamientos, controle sus emociones, ordene su destino. 1 UN NIÑO EMPIEZA LA BÚSQUEDA Yo tenía seis años y estaba asustado.

If you cannot save money, the seed of success is not in you.

Try to do the right thing because it is right.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

Success is achieved by those who try. Where there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful, by all means try!

man’s reactions depend upon his previous habits and experiences of thought and action.

In all the history of the world there was never anyone else exactly like you, and in all the infinity of time to come, there will never be another.

In The Success System That Never Fails, W. Clement Stone advises that to sound enthusiastic you must act enthusiastic. If you act enthusiastic your emotions will follow and soon enough you will feel enthusiastic. He offers the following specific advice from his own experience: Talk loudly! This is particularly helpful if you are emotionally upset or if you have “butterflies in your stomach” when you stand before an audience. Talk rapidly! Your mind functions more quickly than you do. Emphasize! Stress words that are important to you or your listeners—a word like you, for example. Hesitate! Talk rapidly, but hesitate where there would be a period, comma, or other punctuation mark in the written words. When you employ the dramatic effect of silence, the mind of the person who is listening catches up with the thoughts you have expressed. Hesitation after a word you wish to emphasize accentuates the emphasis. Keep a smile in your voice! This eliminates gruffness as you talk loudly and rapidly. You can put a smile in your voice by putting a smile on your face, a smile in your eyes. Modulate! This is important if you are speaking for a long period. Remember, you can modulate both pitch and volume. You can speak loudly, but intermittently change to a conversational tone and a lower pitch if you wish. [This is the end of the excerpt from The Success System That Never Fails. The following resumes from How to Sell Your Way Through Life.]

you should concentrate the rays of the sun through a magnifying glass on one spot on a fallen log, you'd start a fire within a few minutes. Yet the sun could shine for decades on the same piece of wood and it wouldn't ignite without the glass.

The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal, or desire is.

Thought must be followed through by action.

You may be inspired to desirable action to fulfill your good intentions, but you may lack the necessary knowledge, or you may neglect to use the required skills if you have them, and thus you may fail to develop new habit patterns.

1. To learn and use three simple, easily understood concepts that must be used by any person for continuous success in any human activity. Herein lies the essence of this work. For the person who uses these three ingredients in combination in any specific activity cannot fail. • Inspiration to action: that which motivates you to act because you want to. • Know-how: the particular techniques and skills that consistently get results for you when applied. It is the proper application of knowledge. Know-how becomes habit through actual repetitive experience. • Activity knowledge: knowledge of the activity, service, product, methods, techniques, and skills with which you are particularly concerned. 2. To strive day by day to continue his education and thus expand his horizon. 3. To help himself become a better person and constantly strive to make his world better for himself and others. 4. To learn to develop the habit of recognizing, understanding, relating, assimilating, and using principles from his reading, the people he meets, and his everyday experiences. 5. To acquire financial wealth and business success, even though the spotlight is on the true riches of life. 6. To preserve and protect his inheritance as an American. 7. To feel, live, and act with a dynamic philosophy resulting from the action of striving to live up to the precepts of the religious teachings of his own church. 8. To seek and find the true riches of life. Again: A drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. And a self-help book has changed the lives of countless thousands for the better. Take Fuller Duke, for example.

Epictetus said: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

It's the fear of the unknown that keeps a person from starting,

book Cycles, co-authored by Edward R. Dewey and Edwin F. Dakin.

For any mental or physical pain or suffering, regardless of how severe it might be, can in great part be neutralized by the satisfaction and joy of trying to help others. And that's worth living for.

Unless man learns to control the sinner, the animal in himself, he can never release his full accomplishment.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.’ – W. Clement Stone

Prayer is mans greatest power.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

The development of good character is a battle that you, I, and everyone must fight for himself. But victory can be ours.

each new decision that a child or an adult makes in a given set of circumstances begins patterns of thought that later create a tremendous impact in his life.

To get help from without, extract the good where you can find it. And this starts from within: the right mental attitude toward persons, places, things, knowledge, customs, beliefs-be they your own or others.

the inner urge of your feelings, emotions, instincts, and ingrained habits gives you the go power that puts you into action.

One of the best ways to inspire another person to desirable action is to relate a true story that appeals to his emotions.

Have the courage to say "no!" Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right.

If you lack experience or a particular talent or skill and you don't want to pay the price to acquire it, then hire someone who has it to do the job for you.

In interviewing salesmen, appeal to their imagination, appeal to their emotions, by telling the stories of other men in the organization who are a success in your work.

Now the essence of anything is abstract. It is never found. It is never reached. Yet if you search for the essence of perfection, you become more perfect. Search for the essence of success and you become more successful. Search for the essence of achievement and you achieve more.

All the world's progress in every field of activity has been the result of action by men, and women who experienced inspirational dissatisfaction-never by those who were satisfied

As you read this chapter, you saw it clearly: To develop good character, work. To have good health, work. To win over yourself, work. To do the right thing because it is right, work. To rise from rags to riches, work. To fight your way back, work. To acquire knowledge, work. To acquire know-how, work.

inspiration to action, know-how, and activity knowledge. They are the keys to the system.

by employing the right work habits, you do become an expert. Then you experience the joy of work, and the job is no longer work. It becomes fun.

Inspiration to action is the most important ingredient to success in any human activity

seeking self-inspiration, to action, seeking know-how, and seeking knowledge.

Congress sets the rules and says: "Save all the taxes you can, but play the game according to the rules. If there is an inequity, we'll change the rules.

the person's hot button has been pushed.

The world has become a better place in which to live because of persons who have made it a habit to try to do the right thing only because it was right.

The word know-how does not mean knowing how to do something-that's activity knowledge. Know-how is doing that something the right way, with skill and effectiveness, and with minimum expenditure of time and effort.

every new experience and in every new environment an individual will feel some degree of fear.

begin to determine what you really want in the distant, intermediate, and near future.

Remember: The essence of a living philosophy is that it must be alive. To be alive, it must be lived. To be lived, you must act! Actions, not mere words, determine the validity of a man's living philosophy.

All the raw materials come from the ground within the borders of the nation. 2. Domestic labor is employed to create the finished products. 3. Labor, materials, and all other expenses are paid for in domestic currency. 4. A good credit system prevails, which benefits business, industry, and the consumer. 5. A strong government guarantees enforcement of its laws to preserve the freedom of private enterprise and to protect the life and property rights of each individual equally. 6. The government endeavors to avoid war by being so strong that no unfriendly nation will dare attack it. 7. The attitude of the people is positive and develops pride in personal achievement, which engenders the joy of work, and the desire to make their nation and the rest of the world a better place to live in.

One way to make a fortune is to sell a necessity that is low in cost and repeats.

Almost anything can be found in a book.

necessity gave them inspiration to action...experience gave them know-how...and I taught them the necessary knowledge.

focus your attention and effort to acquire the necessary knowledge, know-how and motivation to become an expert and achieve your specific desired objective.

Have the courage to say "no!" Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. Do it now!

You and Psychiatry. (You and Psychiatry, Menninger and Leaf, Scribner's, New York, 1948)