Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.
Russell ConwellSo, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!
Russell ConwellWhen a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.
Russell ConwellMoney is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.
Russell ConwellGreatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.
Russell ConwellLove is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.
Russell ConwellNinety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.
Russell ConwellLet every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.
Russell ConwellYour diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.
Russell ConwellMoney is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!
Russell ConwellMany of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.
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