Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
B. C. FORBESIt’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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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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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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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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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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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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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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