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.
B. C. FORBESThe be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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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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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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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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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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