The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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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 pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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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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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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