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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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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
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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Business Retirement Success
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Sleep Tired Workout
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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Effort Goal Two
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Fall Inspirational Spring
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Inferiority Jealousy
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Enthusiasm Fellows Work
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Complaining Men Opportunity
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Luck Men Opportunity
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Current Electric Enthusiasm Progress

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