Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
B. C. FORBESVitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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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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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 bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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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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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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