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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!

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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
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
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Careers
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Manners Moral People
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Brother Growing Up Successful
The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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Determination Dream People
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Men Patience Reality
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Release Vacation Welcome
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
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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Life Normal Who Cares
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Greed Life World
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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Complaining Men Opportunity
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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Hands Pumps Work

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