publisher Quotes

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day-in and day-out.

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• success

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

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• life

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people. Hugh Hefner Legacy

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• people

See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.

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• Visualization

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

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• Confidence

If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

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• Procrastination

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

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• Charity

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

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• Risk

Constant repetition carries conviction.

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• Learning

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

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• Goals

The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

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• Desires

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

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• Learning

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

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• achieve

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

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• Thought

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

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• Opportunity

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.

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• Desires

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

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• badge

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

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• government

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame -- and only one -- themselves.

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• environment

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...

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• Difficulty

The whole world is run on bluff.

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• bluff

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

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• Opportunity

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

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• Money

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

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• Money

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

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• Learning

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

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• History

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

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• Enjoyment

Desire is proof of the availability...

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• Desires

Newspapers should have no friends.

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• media

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

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• prophecy

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

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• another

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

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• aware

You have to penetrate a woman's defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body.

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• Seduction

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

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• Money

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

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• Desires

All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.

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• Desires

Like having your own licence to print money.

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• licence

Your real self - the "I am I" - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

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• control

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

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• against

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

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• accurately

I've got money so I'm a Conservative.

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• conservative

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

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• bring

I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.

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• gorgeous

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

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• borrowed

Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.

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• coalition

If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.

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• Wealth

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

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• Media

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

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• Leadership

A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

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• Journalism

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

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• Gifts