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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

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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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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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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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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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Sleep Tired Workout
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Accomplish Appreciation Often Can
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Accumulate Consists Simply Success
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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