The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
B. C. FORBESUpon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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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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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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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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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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