There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. FORBESIt 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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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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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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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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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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