The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. FORBESMany 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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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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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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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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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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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