A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
B. C. FORBESTo get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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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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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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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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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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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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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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