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Advertising is the life of trade.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933
- Business
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933The Press Under a Free Government (1925)
- America
- Business
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
Anyone can dabble, but once you’ve made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it’s very hard for people to stop you.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
- Motivation & Goals
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Oliver Cromwell1599–1658Statement to Pomponne de Bellievre, as told to Cardinal de Retz in 1651; Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz (1717), p.75; p.286
- Motivation & Goals
Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie Curie1867–1934Letter to her brother Józef (18 March 1894), quoted in Eve Curie, Madame Curie (1937)
- Life & Death
- Motivation & Goals
I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie1867–1934Autobiographical Notes, in Pierre Curie (1923)
- Motivation & Goals
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
IDIsaac D'Israeli1766–1848
- Motivation & Goals
Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1900–1944Citadelle or The Wisdom of the Sands (1948)
- Motivation & Goals
- Time
I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
John Denham1615–1669Often credited to Gautama Buddha
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Business
- Charity
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
Charles Dickens1812–1870David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 42In context
- Motivation & Goals
- Work
Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!
Charles Dickens1812–1870David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 28In context
- Motivation & Goals
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Success is counted sweetest (1864)In context