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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

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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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Business Retirement Success
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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Democracy Doe Progress
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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Hands Justice Men
Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Careers
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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Blow Effort Fate
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Giving Moving Thinking
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Inspirational Motivational Opportunity
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Credit Firsts Satisfaction
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Jealous Jealousy
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Fall Inspirational Spring
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Business Inspiration Motivation
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity Men
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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Hands Pumps Work

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