W. Clement Stone

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively.

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.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you 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.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

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

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

That after an hour’s silence he can say, The one thing I cannot stand is dampness… That’s all, it took him an hour to work that out.

Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?