I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
B. C. FORBESIf you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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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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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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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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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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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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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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