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.
B. C. FORBESDon’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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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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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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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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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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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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 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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