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

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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Business Driven Order
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Basketball Goal Trying
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 man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Adventure Destiny Sports
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
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Greed Life World
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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Biblical Humble Responsibility
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Credit Firsts Satisfaction
Backboneless employees are too ready to attribute the success of others to luck. Luck is usually the fruit of intelligent application. The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Intelligent Men Opportunity
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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Friendship Loyalty True Friend
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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