It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.

Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.

90% of all management problems are caused by miscommunication.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.