The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
B. C. FORBESA business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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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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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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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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