It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
B. C. FORBESSome people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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