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• If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

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  Motivation, Business, Inspiration

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

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• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

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  Inspirational, Perseverance, Courage

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• Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.

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  Sweetest, Known

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• A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

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  Appreciation, Often Can, Accomplish

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• Plan your work - work your plan

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  Plans

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• The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.

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  Dream, Determination, People

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• Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

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  Practice, Gains, Virtue

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• Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

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  Determination, Lying, Fate

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.88, Lulu.com

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• You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.

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  Ideas, Trouble, Bigs

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• Kill time and you will kill your career.

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  Careers

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• Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

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  Cheating, Deception, Cheated On

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• The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

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  Excuse

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• Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

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  Yield, Goodwill

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• It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

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  Goodness, Easier, Be Good

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• Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

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  Thinking, Acting, Shooting

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• Are your desires purely selfish? Do your tastes run to a grand home, automobiles, fine clothes, an abundance of amusements, and so forth? If so, look around you at people who have such things in superabundance. Are they any happier, do you think, than you are? Are they any better morally? Are they any stronger physically? Are they better liked by their friends than you are by your friends? ... Carnegie said, Millionaires rarely smile. This is substantially true.

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  Running, Selfish, Home

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• 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 world. The popular notion is that a youth's progress depends upon how he acts during his working hours. It doesn't. It depends far more upon how he utilizes his leisure...If he spends it in harmless idleness, he is likely to be kept on the payroll, but that will be about all. If he diligently utilizes his own time...to fit himself for more responsible duties, then the greater responsibilities - and greater rewards - are almost certain to come to him.

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  Time, Responsibility, Men

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• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

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  Business, Real, Riches

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.3, Lulu.com

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• Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

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  Life, Business, Too Late

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• The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

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  Success, Leadership, Men

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• Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.

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  Progress, Electric Current, Enthusiasm

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• Bragging often precedes begging.

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  Bragging, Begging

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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 than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.

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  Persistence, Race, Important

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• No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

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  Determination, Exercise, Fighting

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