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The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

Bruce Barton

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Bruce Barton
Age: 80 †
Born: 1886
Born: January 1
Died: 1967
Died: January 1
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Entrepreneur
Essayist
Legislator
Philanthropist
Politician
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Flagstaff
Arizona
Starting
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Important
Thing
Somewhere

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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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When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.
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Conceit is God's gift to little men.
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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
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If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
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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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If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.
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Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
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In good times, people want to advertise in bad times, they have to.
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When you're through changing you're through.
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It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
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Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
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Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.
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It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.
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If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.
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Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.
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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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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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When you are through changing, you are through.
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