There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. 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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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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