W. Clement Stone Quotes

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

W. Clement Stone

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• I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Different
  • Why
  • Remember

• This bikini made me a success.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Success
  • Me
  • Made

• Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Disaster

• Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Time
  • Done
  • Success

• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Best
  • Purpose
  • Picture

• Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Family
  • Success

• Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Good
  • Why
  • Success

• Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Success
  • Capitalism
  • China

• Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Success
  • Ego
  • Competitive

• I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • People
  • Help
  • Purpose

• Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Success
  • Like
  • Someone

• Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Caring

• Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The real secret of success is enthusiasm.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • Real
  • Success
  • Enthusiasm

• I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Purpose
  • Study
  • Years

• Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • Try
  • Strength

• Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Me
  • Government
  • Purpose

• During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Great
  • Home
  • Purpose

• Wrestling introduced me to the idea that my body has a purpose besides trying to look five years younger for the first time.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Purpose

• I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe #‎ running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Running
  • Goals
  • Metaphor

• We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.

  

  Ray Blanton
  • Angry
  • Fair

• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Success
  • Purpose
  • Achievement