Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
B. C. FORBESBetter to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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How 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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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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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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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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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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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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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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