Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
B. C. FORBESThe truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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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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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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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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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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