“Two men looked out from prison bars,One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

“You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.”

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

“When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.”

“One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”

“Thomas Edison said in allseriousness: "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the labour ofthinking"-if we bother with facts at all, we hunt like bird dogs after the facts thatbolster up what we already think-and ignore all the others! We want only the facts thatjustify our acts-the facts that fit in conveniently with our wishful thinking and justifyour preconceived prejudices!As Andre Maurois put it: "Everything that is in agreement with our personal desiresseems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage."Is it any wonder, then, that we find it so hard to get at the answers to our problems?Wouldn't we have the same trouble trying to solve a second-grade arithmetic problem, ifwe went ahead on the assumption that two plus two equals five? Yet there are a lot ofpeople in this world who make life a hell for themselves and others by insisting that twoplus two equals five-or maybe five hundred!”