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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Important Race Speed
Bragging often precedes begging.
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Begging Bragging
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Release Vacation Welcome
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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Determination Exercise Fighting
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Enthusiasm Fellows Work
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Army Selfishness Unhappiness
There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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Effort Goal Two
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Dog Next Your Best Friend
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Bargaining Satisfaction Yield
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Business Inspiration Motivation
Plan your work – work your plan
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Plan Success Work
Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Careers
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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Knowledge Men Wisdom
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Business Real Riches

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