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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
Bruce Barton
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Bruce Barton
Age: 80 †
Born: 1886
Born: January 1
Died: 1967
Died: January 1
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Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
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The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.
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Much brass has been sounded and many cymbals tinkled in the name of advertising but the advertisements which persuade people to act are written by men who have an abiding respect for the intelligence of their readers, and a deep sincerity regarding the merits of the goods they have to sell.
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Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.
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We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.
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Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere - the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection.
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