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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Manners Moral People
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
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Bigs Idea Trouble
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Accumulate Consists Simply Success
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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Leadership Men Success
I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Encouragement People Real
If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Today Tomorrow Worry
He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Confidence Courage Faith
If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Deal Good Party
Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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All Ends Things Time
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Inferiority Jealousy
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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Sleep Tired Workout
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Enthusiasm Fellows Work

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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