Orison Swett Marden

Magnetic personality is intangible. This mysterious something, which we sometimes call individuality, is often more powerful than the ability which can be measured, or the qualities that can be rated.

Orison Swett Marden

Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.

Orison Swett Marden

More men are ruined by under-estimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.

Orison Swett Marden

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

Orison Swett Marden

No human being can possibly injure another without injuring himself more. He cannot do wrong without paying for it in corresponding suffering.

Orison Swett Marden

One of the worst doctrines ever set afloat is that real happiness is in material things instead of in a condition of mind.

Orison Swett Marden

Only those things grow in our nature which are fed. The quickest way to kill them is to cut off their nourishment.

Orison Swett Marden

Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the cries of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do.

Orison Swett Marden

Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.

Orison Swett Marden

Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant.

Orison Swett Marden