W. Clement Stone Quotes

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.

W. Clement Stone

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I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

Joe Lieberman

BelieveSecurityI BelieveBorders

Disney represents the future of filmmaking in North America.

Joe Russo

FutureAmericaFilmmakingDisney

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

Andrew Vachss

WorkFailureFaithGreatValueMe

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

Maximilian Schell

RelationshipPictureYouLookThings

Browsing the first editions at my local independent bookstore, I came across 'Pastoralia,' a collection of stories by George Saunders. I'd read one of the stories in it already, and several other Saunders stories in magazines and anthologies, and liked them all.

Trenton Lee Stewart

IndependentFirstCollectionStories

I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.

Tom Hanks

CollegeWorldGoKnowPossibleHang

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Mary Kay Ash

CriticismPraiseTwoSandwichLayers

Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.

Michael Schiavo

FamilyHomeDeathYouDownLiving

I find podcasting an enticing space.

Jason Calacanis

SpaceFindEnticing

No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come into direct physical contact with what's known as Evil. I mean here not a property of the gothic novel but, to say the least, a palpable social reality that you in no way can control.

Joseph Brodsky

LifeEvilControlRealityChoose

I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.

Dick Costolo

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Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.

Douglas Rushkoff

BrainThoughtInternetEarlyWay

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