Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. FORBESOpportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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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 man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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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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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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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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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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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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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…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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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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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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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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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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