It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTA man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
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Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
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It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
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Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena: whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
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