It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
B. C. FORBESTriumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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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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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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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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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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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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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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