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See what can be, not just what is. Practice adding value to things, to people, and to yourself.
Get the big view of your job. Think, really think your present job is important. That next promotion depends mostly on how you think toward your present job.
Think above trivial things. Focus your attention o...
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WHEN YOU BELIEVE, YOUR MIND FINDS WAYS TO DO.
When you believe something is impossible, your mind goes to work for you to prove why. But when you believe, really believe, something can be done, your mind goes to work for you and helps you find the ways to do it.
The economists who believe business depressions are inevitable will not develop creative ways to beat the business cycle.
you can find ways to like a person if you believe you can.
Belief releases creative powers. Disbelief puts the brakes on. Believe, and you’ll start thinking—constructively.
Your mind will create a way if you let it.
Make up your mind you are going to go back to school. Let that one thought dominate your thinking.
Think of something special you’ve been wanting to do but felt you couldn’t. Now make a list of reasons why you can do it.
the only thing worthy of our mental concentration is why we can.
Nothing grows in ice. If we let tradition freeze our minds, new ideas can’t sprout.
Traditional thinking is personal enemy number one for the person who is interested in a creative personal success program. Traditional thinking freezes your mind, blocks your progress, and prevents you from developing creative power.
Become receptive to ideas. Welcome new ideas. Destroy these thought repellents: “Won’t work,” “Can’t be done,” “It’s useless,” and “It’s stupid.”
I am the best sponge in the insurance industry. I make it a point to soak up all the good ideas I can.”
Be an experimental person. Break up fixed routines. Expose yourself to new restaurants, new books, new theaters, new friends;
Be progressive, not regressive.
“How can we do it better than we did it where I used to work?”
Successful people, like successful businesses, live with these questions: “How can I improve the quality of my performance? How can I do better?”
“To keep my forward thinking on the track, I’ve divided my job into four elements: customers, employees, merchandise, and promotion. All during the week I make notes and jot down ideas as to how I can improve my business. “Then, every Monday evening, I set aside four hours to review the ideas I’ve jotted down and figure out how to put the solid ones to use in the business. “In this four-hour period I force myself to take a hard look at my operation. I don’t simply wish more customers would shop in my store. Instead I ask myself, ‘What can I do to attract more customers?’ ‘How can I develop
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It’s a rare Monday night that I don’t come up with some plan or technique that makes that profit and loss statement look better.
Each day before you begin work, devote ten minutes to thinking “How can I do a better job today?” Ask, “What can I do today to encourage my employees?” “What special favor can I do for my customers?” “How can I increase my personal efficiency?”
Capacity is a state of mind. How much we can do depends on how much we think we can do. When you really believe you can do more, your mind thinks creatively and shows you the way.
how much I can do depends on how much I think I can do.”
If you want it done, give it to a busy man. I refuse to work on important projects with persons who have lots of free time.
the fellow who has plenty of time makes an ineffective work partner.
Big people monopolize the listening. Small people monopolize the talking.
Top-level leaders in all walks of life spend much more time requesting advice than they do in giving it. Before a top man makes a decision, he asks, “How do you feel about it?” “What do you recommend?” “What would you do under these circumstances?” “How does this sound to you?”
Concentrate on what the other person says. Evaluate it. That’s how you collect mind food.
a mind that feeds only on itself soon is undernourished, becoming weak and incapable of creative progressive thought. Stimulation from others is excellent mind food.
Resolve to put your ideas in salable form. An idea written or in some sort of picture or diagram form has many times more selling power than the idea presented only in oral form.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Don’t let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.
Ask yourself daily, “How can I do better?” There is no limit to self-improvement. When you ask yourself, “How can I do better?” sound answers will appear. Try it and see.
Ask yourself, “How can I do more?” Capacity is a state of mind. Asking yourself this question puts your mind to work to find intelligent shortcuts. The success combination in business is: Do what you do better (improve the quality of your output), and: Do more of what you do (increase the quantity of your output).
Practice asking and listening. Ask and listen, and you’ll obtain raw material for reaching sound decisions. Remember: Big people monopolize the liste...
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Stretch your mind. Get stimulated. Associate with people who can help you think of new ideas, new ways of doing things. Mix with people of diff...
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Others see in us what we see in ourselves. We receive the kind of treatment we think we deserve.
The fellow who thinks he is inferior, regardless of what his real qualifications may be, is inferior. For thinking regulates actions.
To be important, we must think we are important, really think so; then others will think so too.
your appearance “talks.” Be sure it says positive things about you. Never leave home without feeling certain you look like the kind of person you want to be.
Your physical exterior affects your mental interior. How you look on the outside affects how you think and feel on the inside.
the better you are packaged, the more public acceptance you will receive.
Pay twice as much and buy half as many.
