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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Inferiority Jealousy
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Business Real Riches
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
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 the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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Democracy Doe Progress
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Bargaining Satisfaction Yield
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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Fun Leadership Sports
Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Character Honesty Men
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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Leadership Men Success
…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Adventure Destiny Sports
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield
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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Directors Inspire United States
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Confidence Courage Fear
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Sunny Sunny Afternoon Weather Yield
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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Cost Men Self
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Business Late Life Too
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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Sleep Tired Workout
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
Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Found Success Years
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return

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