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.
B. C. FORBESBragging often precedes begging.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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