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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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Goodwill Yield
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Inspirational Motivational Opportunity
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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Business Retirement Success
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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Europe Feet Hands
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Enthusiasm Fellows Work
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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Encouragement People Real
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Anger God Plato
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Important Race Speed
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Bigs Idea Trouble
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Business Late Life Too
Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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All Ends Things Time
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Fall Inspirational Spring
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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Inspirational Motivational Success

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