The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. FORBESTriumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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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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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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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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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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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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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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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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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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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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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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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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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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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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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