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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

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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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Greed Life World
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Important Race Speed
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Business Driven Order
We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Happiness Selfishness Suicidal
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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Found Success Years
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Inferiority Jealousy
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Known Sweetest
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Generosity Joy Selfishness
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Business Inspiration Motivation
To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Blow Effort Fate
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Determination Fate Lying
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
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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Business Retirement Success
When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

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