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.
B. C. FORBESThere is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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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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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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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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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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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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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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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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