The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
B. C. FORBESNo man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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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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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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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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