The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. FORBESThe most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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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 rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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