Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
B. C. FORBESChristmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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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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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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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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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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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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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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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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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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