If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
B. C. FORBESThe be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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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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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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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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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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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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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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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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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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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