The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B. C. FORBESIf the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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There 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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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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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