If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
B. C. FORBESHonesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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…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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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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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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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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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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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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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