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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.

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Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Intelligent Men Opportunity
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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Blow Effort Fate
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Dog Next Your Best Friend
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
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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Hands Justice Men
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
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
Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Jealous Jealousy
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Doe Inspire Unselfishness
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Betting Chickens Coward
To make headway, improve your head.
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Habit Headway Make Work
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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