Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I can give him wealth. I can give him reputation - the power, the wealth, the reputation which come to a man who speaks to a million people a day in the columns of a great paper.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.

I think money, power, fame changes people a lot.

When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on my way to a lot more, but mogul is a really serious thing. I think it's a word that gets thrown around easily.

Nothing will stifle your human evolution more than fame and fortune.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

I want to be a combination of P. Diddy and Oprah.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

There are two things that are fundamental—money and power, and I don’t care much about money

These days to be great is to exceed on prosperity; greatness today has nothing to do with moral magnanimity.

Power won't change me.

The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.

If I can be in a position of power and influence, and be able to make my present better, then I want to do that.

When I came into the NFL, there were three things that were very important to me: money, power and prestige. I was powerful now because I was a famous athlete. I had prestige because I was doing what everybody wanted to do. And I had a lot of money.

People get content - they buy their house, their cars, their grills, and they get comfortable. But I'm not here to be hot for a year.

I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.

I want to ultimately own the world.