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.
B. C. FORBESChristmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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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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To make headway, improve your head.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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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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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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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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