You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
B. C. FORBESThe 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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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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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 you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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