A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
B. C. FORBESTemporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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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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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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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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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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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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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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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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