The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
B. C. FORBESMoney, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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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 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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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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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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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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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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