Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
B. C. FORBESI 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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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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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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