When you are through changing, you are through.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.

The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model - whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.