An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
B. C. FORBESIf 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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Plan your work – work your plan
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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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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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