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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.

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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.

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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.

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Plan your work - work your plan

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The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.

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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

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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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If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.

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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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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

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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…

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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals…

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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…

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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious…

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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…

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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…

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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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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to…

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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit,…

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The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them… Think…

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The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman,…

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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…

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America, in the eyes of the world, typifies above all else this quality of initiative. The greatest successes are nearly all the…

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He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can…

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How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so…

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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the…

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The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about…

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Are soft-hearted people handicapped in business? You have heard a businessman say of someone else, He's all right, but he's too soft-hearted……

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It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to…

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Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this…

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Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake…

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Many men who do creditable things refuse to let it be known. This is a mistake. While we all admire modesty, nevertheless…

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The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have…

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Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not…

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