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. FORBESNext to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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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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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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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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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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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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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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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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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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