The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
B. C. FORBESThe things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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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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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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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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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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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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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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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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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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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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Bragging often precedes begging.
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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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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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