Catalyst

Simon says

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery--courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.   This is one of the chief elements in what we vaguely call capacity.  If you do not dare differ from your associates and teachers you will never be great or your life sublime.  You may be the happier as a result, or you may be miserable.  Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

Question of the Day

What is the great possibility of being different?

Simon says

The sages do not consider that making no mistake is a blessing.  They believe, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually to make a new man of himself.

Question of the Day

What is the value of making mistakes?

Simon says

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better...because we will spend the rest of our lives here.

Question of the Day

Why do anything at all?

Simon says

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind...Not all of a sudden, perhaps, not  in one swift and sweeping act of achievement...But you can do it gradually--day by day and play by play--if you want to do it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

Question of the Day

How do you accomplish anything?

Simon says

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Question of the Day

What are the empires of the future?

Simon says

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man.  And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Question of the Day

How do you be truly useful?

Simon says

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Question of the Day

What is the value of using your mind?

Simon says

You can never have a greater or a less dominion than over yourself.

Question of the Day

What are the limits to mankind's capacity?

Simon says

Keep your thoughts right--for as you think, so you are.  Thoughts are things, therefore, think only the things that will make the world better and you unashamed.

Question of the Day

What should you think?

Simon says

Strange is our situation here upon earth.  Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.
    From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men--above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy.  Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.  My peace of mind is often troubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of other men.

Question of the Day

Why are we here?

Simon says

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.

Question of the Day

How do you start the money?

Simon says

When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired  object.  When you have a distinct purpose in view, your work becomes of absorbing interest.  You bend your best powers to it; you give it concentrated attention; you think of little else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an increasing sense of power.

Question of the Day

What is the benefit of desire?

Simon says

If business is going to continue to sell through the decades, it must also promote an understanding of what made those products possible, what is necessary to a free market, and what our free market means to the individual liberty of each of us, to be certain that the freedoms under which this nation was born and brought to this point shall endure in the future...for America is the product of our freedoms.

Question of the Day

What value is freedom?