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

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Plan your work – work your plan
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Plan Success Work
The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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Life Normal Who Cares
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Accomplish Appreciation Often Can
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
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Sleep Tired Workout
I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Encouragement People Real
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
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Business Satisfaction Yield
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Brother Growing Up Successful
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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Hands Pumps Work
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Important Race Speed
Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Careers
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Enthusiastically Lady Luck

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

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