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Honesty 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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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 man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Busy He-Man Men
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Business Inspiration Motivation
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Accomplish Appreciation Often Can
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Army Selfishness Unhappiness
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
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
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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Accumulate Consists Simply Success
…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
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
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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Important Persistence Race
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Luck Men Opportunity

Honesty 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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Honesty 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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