“Develops the capacity to reach decisions. Definiteness of purpose tends to develop the capacity to reach decisions quickly and firmly. Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.”
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“Kill the habit of worry, in all its forms, by reaching a general, blanket decision that nothing which life has to offer is worth the price of worry.”
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“Impossible,” said he, “is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.”
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“The emotion of sex brings into being a state of mind.”
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“Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in the form of an impulse of thought.”
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“Money, without brains, always is dangerous. Properly used, it is the most important essential of civilization. The simple breakfast here described could not have been delivered to the New York family at a dime each, or at any other price, if organized capital had not provided the machinery, the ships, the railroads, and the huge armies of trained men to operate them.
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“Have you noticed that the most effective worker is generally the busiest?”
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“Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work! Riches come, if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck.”
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“No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes
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“But this argument is found to be defective when examined in its effects and consequences.”
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“Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.”
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“Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.”
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“You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, unless you can work yourself into a white heat of desire for money, and actually believe you will possess it.”
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“What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve”
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“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put it into action.”
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