Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
B. C. FORBESHow 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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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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 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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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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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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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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