Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. Alice Foote MacDougall More Quotes by Alice Foote MacDougall More Quotes From Alice Foote MacDougall Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations.... Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education. Alice Foote MacDougall team business self ... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog. Alice Foote MacDougall ill-health pain advice Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes. Alice Foote MacDougall inspiration success opportunity Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of their wills, life began to express itself in the same hard terms, and the great commerce of a New World bent everything to its indomitable will. Alice Foote MacDougall fighting business heart Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams. Alice Foote MacDougall beautiful inspirational life To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will. Alice Foote MacDougall soul life mean a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep. Alice Foote MacDougall hours music sleep Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest. Alice Foote MacDougall orderliness economy order for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion. Alice Foote MacDougall secret-places soul self When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had an upper and lower story and the regular performance of the day's duties moved and motivated on the upper floor, while down below the all-absorbing problem toils silently, forcefully, toward its solution. Alice Foote MacDougall work-out ego mind When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts. Alice Foote MacDougall helpful gratitude faces For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble. Alice Foote MacDougall soul trouble ease Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure. Alice Foote MacDougall beautiful mean death There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation. Alice Foote MacDougall romance coffee men That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening. Alice Foote MacDougall achievement business forever Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success. Alice Foote MacDougall business struggle success You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not sparingly. You know your limitations and proceed to eliminate them; your abilities, and proceed to develop them. You are free. Alice Foote MacDougall pie cutting hate In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top. Alice Foote MacDougall fighting dog winning Perhaps nothing in all my business has helped me more than faith in my fellow man. From the very first I felt confident that I could trust the great, friendly public. So I told it quite simply what I thought, what I felt, what I was trying to do. And the response was quick, sure, and immediate. Alice Foote MacDougall trust business success Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting. Alice Foote MacDougall lonely kindness success
