W. Clement Stone

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

W. Clement Stone.

My friends, each and every day, 10 to 15 minutes, that's all we ask, and you'll do it.

Don't worry about how long it takes because once you master the charts, you'll make up for all the time you ever spent.

This is Earl Nightingale.

Our good friend W. Clement Stone, one of this country's wealthiest and most successful business leaders, formed a habit in the early days of his career of saying, that's good, whenever anything happened, good or bad.

Most of the time, of course, it was something good.

But even when he learned of a near calamity, a deadly serious situation that would have sent a lesser man scurrying for cover, he'd smile and say, that's good.

What may at the moment seem like the end of the world won't seem so important in ten days and won't be very important in ten months.

Take the long-range view and you can't be defeated by momentary setbacks.

The next time you're tempted to feel discouraged about something, try taking the attitude of W. Clement Stone.

Simply say, that's good, and then start finding out what is good about it.

What was it?

W. Clement Stone.

With a name like that, you're going to need some positive thinking, I think.

Yeah.

So I said, I got to go find out where I can learn about self-esteem.

And someone said, there's this place called the W. Clement Stone and Jesse V.

Stone Foundation.

They teach something called achievement motivation.

And so I ended up working for the W. Clement Jesse B.

Stone Foundation.

And as you know, W. Clement Stone was a good friend of Napoleon Hill.

And I actually got to work for him for several years teaching that material to school teachers all across the Midwest.

Puffed up by his success, Knievel insisted on going to head office to demand an immediate promotion to vice president.

The firm's founder, W. Clement Stone, duly made time for Knievel and duly turned the promotion down flat.

The disappointed salesman resigned on the spot.

But the meeting wasn't nearly as acrimonious as you might imagine.

Present alongside W. Clement Stone was his friend and collaborator, Napoleon Hill.

And the two older men probably chuckled indulgently at young Knievel's moxie, for Stone and Hill were America's greatest proponents of such unabashed self-belief.

The older man, Napoleon Hill, was arguably the father of the modern self-help book.

Hill recommended visualising your goals, maintaining unwavering faith in yourself, and something he called sex transmutation, which involves channelling whatever sexual energy you possess into making money instead.

Okay, Kim, over to you.

You want to talk about W. Clement Stone? I

do want to talk about W. Clement Stone.

He was BFFs with Napoleon Hill, which, you know, probably type yes in the chat if you know who Napoleon Hill is.

Probably everybody does.

If they want to do something, it never occurs to them they can't do it.

I hope that in your association with the Portland Hill Associates, you'll come to know my distinguished business associate, Mr. W. Clement Stone, better.

Because if I ever saw a man that knows the power of his mind and is willing to rely upon that mind, Mr.

Stone is that man.

And so the next day, I did get up.

And as W. Clement Stone said, it was a little hinge that swung a big door.

So I believe life is about momentum.

Feeling good about yourself, giving yourself the best shot possible to evolve.