W. Clement Stone Quotes

Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

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.

We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

Be generous! Give to those you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate - yes, give especially to those to whom you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful.