Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. FORBESTo make headway, improve your head.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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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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