Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.
Interpretation
Balancing careful judgment with strong ambition and enthusiasm can lead to achieving great success.
This quote by Dale Carnegie suggests that to achieve success, one must not only be ambitious but also exercise good judgment while maintaining high energy levels. The recipe for success involves a thoughtful approach combined with a passionate drive, indicating that merely having one without the other may not yield the best results.
In practice
This quote could be used in a motivational speech to inspire a group of business professionals.
When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.
You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.
No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.
Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself.
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