All I want to do is change the world.

- William Clement Stone

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. If you're not clear about this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage - if you'll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and you'll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time.

- William Clement Stone

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

- William Clement Stone

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

- William Clement Stone

Bondage is ... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

- William Clement Stone

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

- William Clement Stone

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

- William Clement Stone

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

- William Clement Stone

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

- William Clement Stone

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

- William Clement Stone