W. Clement Stone Quotes

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet companies win all the time and let it go without so much as a high five. Work is too much a part of life not to recognize moments of achievement. Make a big deal out of them. If you don't, no one will.

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

Mental toughness is essential to success.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

It feels like all my hard work is getting recognized. It makes me work even harder.

Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes "winning" possible.

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.

There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another; but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.

So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.

I've got a feeling that if it's so easy for you - the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

When you accomplish a goal, don't cross it out. Instead, write 'victory' next to it and move on to the next one. This way, whenever you have a bad day, all you have to do is to review your victories to feel good about yourself.

You did it! Congratulations! World's best cup of coffee! Great job, everybody! It's great to be here.

Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting