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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.

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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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Business Retirement Success
It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Europe Feet Hands
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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Leadership Men Success
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Business Late Life Too
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Army Selfishness Unhappiness
Plan your work – work your plan
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Plan Success Work
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Important Persistence Race
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Business Real Riches
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Accumulate Consists Simply Success
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Honesty Inspirational Mind
…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Adventure Destiny Sports
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Jealous Jealousy
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships

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