William J. H. Boetcker Quotes

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• That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them…
• Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
• Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
• Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw…
• The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
• You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
• You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
• What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those…
• You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
• The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
• We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.
• And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
• The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant…
• If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar…
• You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
• You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
• No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.
• Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.
• If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with…
• The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor…

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