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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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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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Blow Effort Fate
To make headway, improve your head.
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Habit Headway Make Work
The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Luck Men Opportunity
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.
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Complaining Men Opportunity
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Army Selfishness Unhappiness
Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Careers
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Honesty Inspirational Mind
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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Encouragement People Real
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Brother Growing Up Successful
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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Happiness Selfishness Suicidal
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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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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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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