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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 human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Army Selfishness Unhappiness
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
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Jealous Jealousy
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Known Sweetest
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Current Electric Enthusiasm Progress
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Dog Next Your Best Friend
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
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Bargaining Satisfaction Yield
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Accomplish Appreciation Often Can
There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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Effort Goal Two
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Business Satisfaction Yield

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