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. FORBESThe man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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