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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Acceptance Pay Price Self
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Determination Fate Lying
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Enthusiastically Lady Luck
The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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Determination Dream People
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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Friendship Loyalty True Friend
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
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Directors Inspire United States
There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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Effort Goal Two
Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Careers
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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Biblical Humble Responsibility
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Jealous Jealousy
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men

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