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.
B. C. FORBESTurn 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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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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 person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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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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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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