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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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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Enthusiasm Fellows Work
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Army Selfishness Unhappiness
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Credit Firsts Satisfaction
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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Intelligent Men Opportunity
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Business Satisfaction Yield
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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Knowledge Men Wisdom
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Adventure Destiny Sports
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Known Sweetest
The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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Life Normal Who Cares
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Inspirational Motivational Success

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