What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
B. C. FORBESMany of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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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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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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