Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B. C. FORBESThere is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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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The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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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.
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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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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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