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.
B. C. FORBESThe man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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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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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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 truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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