There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. FORBESIf a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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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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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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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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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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