Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Assurance, Confidence
A man who tries to make the workmen believe that their employers are their natural enemies is indeed the worst enemy of workmen. For the employees of yesterday are the employers of today, and the employees of today can and will partly be the employers of tomorrow.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let’s change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Change
What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Beginning
What our country really needs most are those things which money cannot buy.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Money
You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Motivation, Criticism
A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Religion
Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment.
—William J. H. Boetcker
No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Work
Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don’t waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Human Nature
Seven national crimes: 1. I don’t think. 2. I don’t know. 3. I don’t care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Failure
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Doing, Security, Character
True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community with God. It must be experienced to be appreciated. A life of service. A living by giving and finding one’s own happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Religion, Kindness, Giving, Service
The more men, generally speaking, will do for a Dollar when they make it, the more that Dollar will do for them when they spend it.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Money
Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Ignorance
It is better to be old-fashioned and right than to be up-to-date and wrong.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record each and everyday, and you are a success.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Success
Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
—William J. H. Boetcker
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Inaction, Action, Men, Getting Going, Procrastination
When away from home always be like the kind of man you would care to take into your own home.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Manners
Before you can write a check, you must first make out a deposit slip; before you can draw money out of a bank, you must put money into a bank; before you are entitled to a living, you must give the world a life; if you want to make a first-class living, learn to give the world a first-class life.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Life
If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight?
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Wealth, Self-Discovery
A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Democracy
You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you will have to win their hearts to have them work with you.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Business, Work
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
—William J. H. Boetcker
What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.
—William J. H. Boetcker
You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don’t believe in yourself.
—William J. H. Boetcker
Topics: Awareness, Acceptance, Realization
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