If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
Interpretation
Good products and skills attract attention and business, regardless of location.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights the idea that quality and craftsmanship have the power to draw people in, even to the most secluded places. When someone has something of value to offer, such as exceptional goods or skills, there will be a demand for it, leading others to seek out that person's offerings, no matter the distance or difficulty in access.
In practice
This quote can be used in a business presentation to emphasize the importance of quality in attracting customers.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours
Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was.
I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
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