Why should I know Ralph Charell?

“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”

“Do more than you have to do, more than your share, and do it as well as you can.”

“I wanted to go into TV and write comedy. I wrote to ABC, NBC and CBS. ABC was interested and said they would get back to me.To get ABC’s attention, I sent a carrier pigeon to inquire about my prospects. They sent back a message on the bird. It said, ‘nothing yet.’”

“It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.”

“n 1967 I got this bright idea to invent an ice skate that doesn’t need ice. I decided not to patent it because I worried it would be too dangerous for kids to use and too costly to produce. Someone else had the same idea and followed through. This invention, which you’ve no doubt heard of, is called Rollerblades.”

“Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.”

“The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.”