Bruce Barton
American author and advertising executive, 1886-1967
10 quotes.
Quotes by Bruce Barton
- All achieving characters have a sublime disregard of criticism.
- Be a good servant and you will be great; be the best possible servant and you will occupy the highest possible place. .
- He believed that the way to get faith out of men is to show that you have faith in them; and from that great principle of executive management he never wavered.
- If leaders were chosen in our day on the basis of their proved power to govern their own families in righteousness, how many would qualify?
- No important truth can be impressed upon the minds of any large number of people by being said only once.
- No man was ever big enough to build an enduring success on the basis of insincerity; but many comparatively small men, like Peter the Hermit or Billy Sunday, fired with conviction, have been able to create and sustain a very considerable influence.
- Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance.
- The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.
- The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity—an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
- Whoever will be great must render great service.