A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
B. C. FORBESThe 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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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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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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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.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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