Bruce Barton Quotes - Page 2

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.

Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.

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.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

The faults of advertising are only those common to all human institutions. If advertising speaks to a thousand in order to influence one, so does the church. And if it encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony. Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising. In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times they have to.

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.

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

A man may be down, but he is never out.

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

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.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me.

There are no little things.

It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.

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.

Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

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.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

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.

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

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.

When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world.