An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
B. C. FORBESThe 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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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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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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Plan your work – work your plan
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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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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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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…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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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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