Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
B. C. FORBESThe 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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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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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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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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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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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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