The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
B. C. FORBESTriumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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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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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.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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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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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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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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