Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
B. C. FORBESOur future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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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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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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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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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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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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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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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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Plan your work – work your plan
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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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