There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

- Alice Foote Macdougall

It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unl…

- Alice Foote Macdougall

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much …

- Alice Foote Macdougall

In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the ea…

- Alice Foote Macdougall

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

- Alice Foote Macdougall

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

- Alice Foote Macdougall

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack e…

- Alice Foote Macdougall

You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not spari…

- Alice Foote Macdougall

That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the…

- Alice Foote Macdougall