If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
B. C. FORBESI 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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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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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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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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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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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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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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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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