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.
B. C. FORBESDiamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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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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