History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. FORBESA business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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…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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Plan your work – work your plan
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I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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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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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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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