Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
B. C. FORBESThe Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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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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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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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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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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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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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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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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