Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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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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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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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 man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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