Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
B. C. FORBESA business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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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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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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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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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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