If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
Interpretation
Good products and skills attract attention and business, regardless of location.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights the idea that quality and craftsmanship have the power to draw people in, even to the most secluded places. When someone has something of value to offer, such as exceptional goods or skills, there will be a demand for it, leading others to seek out that person's offerings, no matter the distance or difficulty in access.
In practice
This quote can be used in a business presentation to emphasize the importance of quality in attracting customers.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.
When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from.
I feel that I am in a business that is a credit to the womanhood of our race.
You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
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