“We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.” MenMayDifferentReasonFactsFormEffortPovertySuccessfulHe ManMastersThousandAchievementMiseryDefeatDespiteChiefsMarchUndertakings Book:The Law of Success Source: The Law of Success
“Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today ... The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.” MenWorldShouldHumansArtDoneAgeTodayActionMovingLiteratureFiveMissingHe ManAchievementTwentiesTreasureFortyPricelessTwenty Five Author:William Osler
“The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man.” MenShouldChildrenStillsIdeasDoneUsedMotherDiesEnergyGrowsGrowthWalksTeachGrowing UpProduceHe ManBabyAchievementMotherhoodConstructiveAccumulationConcealed Author:Maria Montessori
“Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.” MenWayDoeTwoWifeFeminismHe ManHonorHusbandAchievementGloryJokesCancerBritishCuresThanksTeaAcquireShedRoyalTwo WaysNancyRoyal Family Author:Katha Pollitt
“The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic and bitter end to it have always fascinated, appalled and attracted me since childhood. It was he who first in some measure vindicated my sexuality.” MenFirstsImportantEndsChildhoodHe ManAchievementSexualityBitterTragicFascinatedOscarsDisgraceDownfallWildeVindicated Author:Stephen Fry
“More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining notonly in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement.” MenHomeJobsPoliticsWomenSidesResponsibilityMorningMillionsHe ManIndustryTenAchievementTasksImportancePartnersWelfareExecutivesMarchRoutineEvery MorningWagesGuardianStay At Home Book:The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928 Source: The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928
“The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.” MenYearsDoeRealAmericaPurposePleasureWeekHe ManAchievementIncreaseAspirationLeisureImpressedUsefulnessRecreationSpursMiningTrue Purpose Author:B. C. Forbes
“In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.” MenMayEndsWealthRichFailingHe ManSourceAchievementStructureInvestingFinancialTricksGoldenInvestorsTransformedCan NotAlchemyAccountingAlchemistGullibleBecome Rich Author:Warren Buffett