Bruce Barton Quotes
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Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.
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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.
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
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Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.
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If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.
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Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
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If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
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Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.
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When you're through changing you're through.
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The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.
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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.
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A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.
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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
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When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.
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Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.
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Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work.
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If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.
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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
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The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.
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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.
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An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.
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I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.
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As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world.
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Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
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A man may be down, but he is never out.
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Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
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Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.
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