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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
Plan your work – work your plan
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Plan Success Work
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Accomplish Appreciation Often Can
If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Today Tomorrow Worry
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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Cost Men Self
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Credit Firsts Satisfaction
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
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Army Selfishness Unhappiness
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Decision Judgement Perfect
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
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Accumulate Consists Simply Success
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Determination Fate Lying
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Enthusiastically Lady Luck
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Enthusiasm Fellows Work

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