Bruce Barton
Full Name: Bruce Fairchild Barton
Birthdate: August 5, 1886
Birthplace: Robbins, Tennessee, USA
Date of Death: July 5, 1967
Occupation: Advertising Executive, Author, and Politician
Profile: Best known for
The Man Nobody Knows and creating the character of
Betty Crocker.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Fairchild_Barton
Number of Quotes: 36
A man may be down, but he is never out.
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change—this is the rhythm of living. Out of our
over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Reflects his views on adaptability and progress.
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
Emphasizes the role of advertising in democratic societies.
As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, ‘Let there be light,’ constitute its charter.
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made
on Lincoln.
Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.
Christ would be a national advertiser
today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser
in His own
day. He thought
of His life as business.
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
Focuses on productivity over effort.
Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.
Give advertising time. That is the thing that it needs most.
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own
personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
In good times people want to advertise; in bad times they have to.
Highlights the necessity of advertising in all economic climates.
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be
absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
Jesus picked up
twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.
Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has
successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Stresses the power of self-belief and resilience.
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
The faults of advertising are only those common to all human institutions.
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion… It is the man who carefully
advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider – and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation –
persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
Advocates for incremental growth and focused perseverance.
The successful man respects decision so long as it is arrived at by others.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
There are no little things.
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will
not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
When you are through changing, you are through.
A well-known aphorism on the importance of adaptability.
When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.
When you're through changing, you're through.
When you're through working, you’re through.
Encourages sustained engagement and passion in one’s endeavors.
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