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Orison Swett Marden

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Total quotes: 4

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Orison Swett Marden

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Educated At: Harvard University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Poet Lawyer, Writer

Total quotes: 4

“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

Tagged: Success

“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

Tagged: Success

“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

Tagged: Success

“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

Tagged: Success

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