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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.' ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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A good system shortens the road to the goal. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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