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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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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Happiness Selfishness Suicidal
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Luck Men Opportunity
Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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All Ends Things Time
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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Friendship Loyalty True Friend
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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Courage Inspirational Perseverance
The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Biblical Blessed Home
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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Determination Exercise Fighting
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
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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Blow Effort Fate
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Bargaining Satisfaction Yield
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
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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Acceptance Pay Price Self
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Sunny Sunny Afternoon Weather Yield
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

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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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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