Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
B. C. FORBESJealousy… is a mental cancer.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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It 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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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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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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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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