Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
B. C. FORBESThink 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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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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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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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 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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