W. Clement Stone Quotes

1902–2002, American Businessman, Author · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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“Events tend to recur in cycles...”
Cycles
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“Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.”
Self-talk
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“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.”
Action
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“You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.”
Suggestion
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“When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions...”
Control
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“Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.”
Cooperation
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“If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!”
Ask
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“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.”
Truth
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“Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman -- not the attitude of the prospect.”
Sales
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“Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.”
Freedom
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“We have a problem. ''Congratulations.'' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations.''”
Problems
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“Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.”
Trying
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“So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.”
Action
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“You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.”
Goals
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“No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.”
Courage
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“That's why many fail -- because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.”
Inertia
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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.”
Choice
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“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.”
Purpose
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“If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.”
Planning
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“The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.”
Inertia
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“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.”
Courage
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“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.”
Goals
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“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”
Attitude
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“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.”
Action
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“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?”
Environment
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“Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.”
Obstacles
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“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.”
Control
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