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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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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
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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Democracy Doe Progress
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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Biblical Humble Responsibility
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Manners Moral People
When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
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
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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Confidence Courage Faith
…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Adventure Destiny Sports
If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Deal Good Party
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Complaining Men Opportunity
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Men Self Simplicity
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Jealous Jealousy
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships

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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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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