There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. FORBESSome people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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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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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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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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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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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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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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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