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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Golf Hazard Life
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Bargaining Satisfaction Yield
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Accomplish Appreciation Often Can
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
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Hands Pumps Work
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Dog Next Your Best Friend
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity Men
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Done Effort Yield
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Adversity Challenges Motivational
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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Brother Growing Up Successful
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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Character Honesty Men
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Business Driven Order
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield
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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