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Our 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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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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Directors Inspire United States
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Men Patience Reality
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Business Inspiration Motivation
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Accumulate Consists Simply Success
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Confidence Courage Fear
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
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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Courage Inspirational Perseverance
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
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
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
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Sunny Sunny Afternoon Weather Yield
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Dog Next Your Best Friend
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.
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Encouragement People Real

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