The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. FORBESThe most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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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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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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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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