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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Known Sweetest
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Belief Character Honesty
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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Character Honesty Men
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Luck Men Opportunity
Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Manners Moral People
The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Biblical Blessed Home
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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Directors Inspire United States
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Business Real Riches
…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Adventure Destiny Sports
If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Deal Good Party
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Sleep Tired Workout
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Important Persistence Race
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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Gains Practice Virtue

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