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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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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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.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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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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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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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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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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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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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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