If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B. C. FORBESThere is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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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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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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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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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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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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