The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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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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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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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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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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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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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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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