There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.
Interpretation
Working people can achieve great things with support and opportunities.
This quote emphasizes the potential of ordinary individuals to achieve extraordinary results when provided with the right support and encouragement. It conveys the idea that with opportunity and motivation, anyone can rise to meet challenges and succeed beyond what is expected of them.
In practice
In a pep talk to employees about a new project, this quote can inspire them to believe in their capabilities.
Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.
I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.
It's hard for me... If I don't have a project going, I don't feel like I'm connected to anything. I don't even think it's that healthy for me. I like to get out of bed and have a purpose.
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.
I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.
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