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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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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
Kill time and you will kill your career.
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Careers
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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Current Electric Enthusiasm Progress
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Release Vacation Welcome
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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Leadership Men Success
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Greed Life World
The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
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
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Golf Hazard Life
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
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Goodwill Yield
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Men Patience Reality
To make headway, improve your head.
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Habit Headway Make Work
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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Directors Inspire United States
There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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Men People Self
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Luck Men Opportunity
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Credit Firsts Satisfaction
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
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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Inspirational Motivational Success
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Bragging often precedes begging.
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Begging Bragging
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Important Race Speed
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Business Driven Order
He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Confidence Courage Faith
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Anger God Plato
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

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