American Writer, Publisher
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream — but create!
Robert Collier – [Imagination]


Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.
Robert Collier – [Planning]


One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
Robert Collier – [Affirmation]


One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
Robert Collier – [Conflict]


People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame — and only one — themselves.
Robert Collier – [Environment]


Pictures help you to form the mental mold…
Robert Collier – [Imagination]


Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
Robert Collier – [Desire]


Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
Robert Collier – [Risk]


See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
Robert Collier – [Imagination]


See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Robert Collier – [Visualization]


Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
Robert Collier – [Desire]


Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.
Robert Collier – [Crisis]


Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
Robert Collier – [Opportunity]


Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out…
Robert Collier – [Success]


Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
Robert Collier – [Desire]


Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
Robert Collier – [Action]


The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
Robert Collier – [Goals]


The first principle of success is desire — knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier – [Desire]


The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations… they think ahead and create their mental picture, and the go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building — steadily building.
Robert Collier – [Imagination]


The great thing is the start — to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer — and him for nothing.
Robert Collier – [Inertia]

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