W. Clement Stone Quotes

"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."

"I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision."

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

"What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?"

"Be generous! Give to those you love? give to those who love you? give to thefortunate? give to the unfortunate yes, give especially to those you don't want togive. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the moreyou will have!"

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

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

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

"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 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."

"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. You will receive abundance for your giving."

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

"Events tend to recur in cycles..."

"When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions..."

"All I want to do is change the world."

"To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage."

"You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself."

"To be happy, make other people happy."

"All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is."

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