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Many 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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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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Business Satisfaction Yield
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Important Race Speed
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
Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Giving Moving Thinking
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Business Late Life Too
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 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 a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
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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Friendship Loyalty True Friend
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Accomplish Appreciation Often Can
I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Encouragement People Real
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
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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Intelligent Men Opportunity
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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Hands Justice Men
To make headway, improve your head.
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Habit Headway Make Work
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing

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