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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

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No 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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Determination Exercise Fighting
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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Hands Justice Men
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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Men People Self
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
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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Europe Feet Hands
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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Biblical Humble Responsibility
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
Plan your work – work your plan
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Plan Success Work
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Greed Life World
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Bigs Idea Trouble
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Manners Moral People
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Anger God Plato
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
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity Men

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