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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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Gains Practice Virtue
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Jealous Jealousy
If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Deal Good Party
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Business Inspiration Motivation
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Business Late Life Too
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Men Patience Reality
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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Acceptance Pay Price Self
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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Effort Goal Two
The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Men Self Simplicity
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
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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Directors Inspire United States
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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Biblical Humble Responsibility
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Greed Life World
There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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Men People Self

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