Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
B. C. FORBESThere 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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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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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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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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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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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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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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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