I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
B. C. FORBESThere is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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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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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Vitally 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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If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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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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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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