Bruce Barton
Bruce Barton
Bruce Fairchild Bartonwas an American author, advertising executive, and politician. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1937 to 1940 as a Republican from New York...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 August 1886
CountryUnited States of America
biblical rose divine
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.
lonely loneliness being-alone
It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
life home men
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.
successful sides advertising
I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.
brain legs want
If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.
men names people
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.
men may
A man may be down, but he is never out.
failure grace style
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.
communication men mind
Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.
wise men giving
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.
mean order people
The faults of advertising are only those common to all human institutions. If advertising speaks to a thousand in order to influence one, so does the church. And if it encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony. Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising. In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times they have to.
running long individual
In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.
jesus men effort
Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.
book years people
Voltaire spoke of the Bible as a short-lived book. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as a depot of a Bible society.