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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

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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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Found Success Years
If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Deal Good Party
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Greed Life World
Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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Gains Practice Virtue
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Accumulate Consists Simply Success
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
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Decision Judgement Perfect
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Anger God Plato
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Luck Men Opportunity
There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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Men People Self
Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Intelligent Men Opportunity
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Jealous Jealousy
We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Happiness Selfishness Suicidal
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
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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Hands Justice Men
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

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