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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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• 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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• 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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• The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.

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  Excuse

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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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• Kill time and you will kill your career.

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  Careers

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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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• Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

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  Thinking, Acting, Shooting

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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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• 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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• Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

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  Cheating, Deception, Cheated On

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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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• 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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• 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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• Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have just entered is to strive diligently to promote the happiness of others, to think of them first, yourself second. Happiness is the greatest tonic, the greatest elixir, of all. Worry is among the worst poisons. One sensible New Year resolution: I will do my utmost to have consideration for others, to exercise usefulness, to radiate happiness, to conquer worrying over things I cannot possibly remedy.

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  Happiness, New Year, Exercise

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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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• I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day-to-day affairs that they had no time for friend-making.... They may flatter themselves that their unrelaxing concentration on business constitutes patriotism of the highest order. They may tell themselves that the existing emergency will pass, and that they can then adopt different, more sociable, more friendly habits. [But] such a day is little likely to come for such individuals.

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  Retirement, Business, Order

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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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• 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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• 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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• Bragging often precedes begging.

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  Bragging, Begging

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• Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

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  Jealousy, Cancer, Jealous

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• Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.

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  Father, Successful, Class

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• Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

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  Workout, Tired, Sleep

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