The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
B. C. FORBESEnthusiasm 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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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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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There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. 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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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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