Great Throughts Treasury

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

"The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service."

"The success always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Any one of them could change the course of his life overnight."

"A barrier is of ideas, not of things."

"At all times it is better to have a method."

"There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going."

"Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous."

"There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing."

"To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it."

"There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage."

"You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own."

"You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone."