The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
B. C. FORBESBetter to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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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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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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Plan your work – work your plan
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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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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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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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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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