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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

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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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Release Vacation Welcome
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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Knowledge Men Wisdom
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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Hands Justice Men
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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Democracy Doe Progress
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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Brother Growing Up Successful
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Generosity Joy Selfishness
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Blow Effort Fate
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Done Effort Yield
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Business Late Life Too
Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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All Ends Things Time
Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Intelligent Men Opportunity
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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Hands Pumps Work
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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