Paul Arden — American Author born on April 07, 1940, died on April 02, 2008

Paul Arden was a creative director of Saatchi and Saatchi and an author several books on advertising and motivation, including Whatever You Think, Think The Opposite and It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be... (wikipedia)

You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you're incapable of... If you think you're incapable of running a company, make that your aim... Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible.
Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.
We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling.
There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.