Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. FORBESThe fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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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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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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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…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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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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