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. FORBESGolf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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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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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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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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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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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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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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