I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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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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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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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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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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 shady business never yields a sunny life.
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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 bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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