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.
B. C. FORBESCheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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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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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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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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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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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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