Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
B. C. FORBESHow you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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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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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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