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Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden

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Educated At Harvard University

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Poet Lawyer, Writer

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The popular idea of multi-millionaire is a man who has taken big risks and has come out lucky. He is a living refutation of his conception. He is careful and cautious by nature, and he had made these traits habitual.

— Orison Swett Marden, How they succeeded : life stories of successful men told by themselves

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Trials unlock their virtues; defeat is the threshold of their victory. It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

— Orison Swett Marden, The Orison Swett Marden Collection

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His rule: have the chief authority in his own hands or have nothing to do with the matter.

— Orison Swett Marden, How they succeeded : life stories of successful men told by themselves

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There is nothing impulsive or bombastic about him [Rockefeller]. But his conversation impresses one consistency of about 100% of cold, compact, boiled down common sense.

— Orison Swett Marden, How they succeeded : life stories of successful men told by themselves

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Investors–when he [Rockefeller] was 25–offered him $500k if he could find some oil wells–if he could find good ones. He couldn't and returned to Cleveland without spending a dollar and staying out of the drilling end of the market.

— Orison Swett Marden, How they succeeded : life stories of successful men told by themselves

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His [Rockefeller's] secret was: Power of foresight.

It comes simply from his habit of looking at every side of a question, of weighing the favorable and unfavorable features of a situation and of sifting out the inevitable result through his unfairly good judgment.

— Orison Swett Marden, How they succeeded : life stories of successful men told by themselves

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