The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
B. C. FORBESUpon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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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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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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