Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
B. C. FORBESThe man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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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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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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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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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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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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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