Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B. C. FORBESAny 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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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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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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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