Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Browse 14 quotes from Orison Swett Marden, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Your expectations open or close the doors of your supply. If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
Ambition is the steam that drives men forward on the road to success.
A will finds a way.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
The greatest thing a man can possibly 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.
What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

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