Plan your work – work your plan
B. C. FORBESThink 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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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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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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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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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.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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