A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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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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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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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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