Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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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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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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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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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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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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