A shady business never yields a sunny life.
B. C. FORBESThe man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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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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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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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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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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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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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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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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. 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 is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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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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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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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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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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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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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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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 you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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