In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
B. C. FORBESIf you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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 man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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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 fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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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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