Alice Foote MacDougall Quotations

When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

To me life means the growing of a soul. I do not know why this duty is imposed upon us. I merely know that it is, and I feel that we are given much latitude of free will.

For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.

Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.