It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThe best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
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To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
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Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.
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There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
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If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
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Nothing worth having comes easy.
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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
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Politeness is a sign of dignity not subservience.
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Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena: whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
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It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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With self discipline most anything is possible.
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