You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
B. C. FORBESMany a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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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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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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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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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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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