Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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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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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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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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