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.
B. C. FORBESThe fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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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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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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