Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
B. C. FORBESIt is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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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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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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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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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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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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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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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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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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