Alice Foote MacDougall
Alice Foote MacDougall
business essentials tradition
One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.
depends keeping life mind opportunity success
Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
gratitude faces helpful
When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.
order orderliness economy
Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.
music sleep hours
a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.
life mean soul
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.
soul ease trouble
For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.
coffee men romance
There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.
success business struggle
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.
dog fighting winning
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.
tyrants relax delight
Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.
success erratic may
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.
success opportunity mind
Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
secret-places self soul
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.