The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
B. C. FORBESWhen it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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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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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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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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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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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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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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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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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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