The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
B. C. FORBESThere is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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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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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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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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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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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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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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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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