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.
B. C. FORBESThere’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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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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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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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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 deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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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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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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