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- A willing, cheerful worker, with his heart in his job, will turn out more work and more satisfactory work in 44 hours than an unwilling…
- Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he is likely to go in…
- The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the…
- There is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly…
- For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden…
- He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can do so many…
- It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an…
- Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
- Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
- There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
- A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously,…
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