William Clement Stone Quotes

American New Thought author (1902-2002)

William Clement Stone (4 May 1902 – 3 September 2002) was an American businessman, author, and philanthropist; an advocate of what he called "PMA": Positive Mental Attitude. Beginning with meager material resources he became a multi-millionaire, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lived to be 100.

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Be careful the environment you choose, for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

But you must have knowledge and know-how to interpret the meaning of what you observe

every new experience and in every new environment an individual will feel some degree of fear.

Decisions without actions are worthless Failure can be good for you Don't let mental walls block you in Direct your thoughts, control your emotions, ordain your destiny

you should concentrate the rays of the sun through a magnifying glass on one spot on a fallen log, you'd start a fire within a few minutes. Yet the sun could shine for decades on the same piece of wood and it wouldn't ignite without the glass.

The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal, or desire is.

Give a pleasant response (the neutralizer of irritants) — you will be pleasant and receive pleasant responses.

The word know-how does not mean knowing how to do something-that's activity knowledge. Know-how is doing that something the right way, with skill and effectiveness, and with minimum expenditure of time and effort.

Success is achieved by those who try.

One of the best ways to inspire another person to desirable action is to relate a true story that appeals to his emotions.

In interviewing salesmen, appeal to their imagination, appeal to their emotions, by telling the stories of other men in the organization who are a success in your work.

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. The more you give — the more you will have!

To get help from without, extract the good where you can find it. And this starts from within: the right mental attitude toward persons, places, things, knowledge, customs, beliefs-be they your own or others.

Unless man learns to control the sinner, the animal in himself, he can never release his full accomplishment.

As you read this chapter, you saw it clearly: To develop good character, work. To have good health, work. To win over yourself, work. To do the right thing because it is right, work. To rise from rags to riches, work. To fight your way back, work. To acquire knowledge, work. To acquire know-how, work.