Bear Stearns, General Motors. Many failed. All were imperiled.
KEEP A CLOSED MOUTH AND OPEN EARS AND EYES.
“TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.”
But he did have initiative, faith, and the will to win. With these intangible forces he made himself “number one man” with the greatest inventor who ever lived.
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.
Henry Ford was a success because he understood and applied the principles of success. One of these is DESIRE—knowing what you want.
understanding of the enormous power of DESIRE—The First Step to Riches.
A BURNING DESIRE TO BE AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
no possible way of retreat.
win or perish!
BURNING DESIRE TO WIN, essential to success.
Every individual who reaches the age of understanding the purpose of money, wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
If the thing you wish to do is right and you believe in it, go ahead and do it! Put your dream across, and never mind what “they” say if you meet with temporary defeat, for “they” perhaps do not know that EVERY FAILURE BRINGS WITH IT THE SEED OF AN EQUIVALENT SUCCESS.
The world has become accustomed to new discoveries. It has shown a willingness to reward the dreamer who gives the world a new idea.
Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
DESIRE BACKED BY FAITH knows no such word as impossible.
“Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better,”