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.
B. C. FORBESChristmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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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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To make headway, improve your head.
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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 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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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. 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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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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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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Plan your work – work your plan
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