Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
B. C. FORBESTo succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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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.
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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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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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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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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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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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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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