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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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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Business Driven Order
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Inspirational Motivational Opportunity
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 Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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Determination Dream People
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Accomplish Appreciation Often Can
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield
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
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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Blow Effort Fate
Bragging often precedes begging.
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Begging Bragging
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Complaining Men Opportunity
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Children Fate Inspirational
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Sunny Sunny Afternoon Weather Yield

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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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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