The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B. C. FORBESHe best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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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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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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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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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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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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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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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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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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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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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.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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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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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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