Bruce Fairchild Barton Quotes

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things.

I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

When I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think that there are no little things.

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequence come from little things... I am tempted to think there are no little things....

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things...
I am tempted to think...
there are no little things.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.

What a curious phenomenon it is, that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world, who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising; but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell.

Conceit is God’s gift to little men.

Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention; that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere — the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection.

Generalities would have been soon forgotten. But the story that had its roots in everyday human existence and need, lives and will live forever. It condensed the philosophy of Christianity into half a dozen unforgettable paragraphs. The parable of the Good Samaritan is the greatest advertisement of all times.