…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.
B. C. FORBESNext to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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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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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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