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B C Forbes Inspirational Quotes (77)

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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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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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, I was wrong.
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...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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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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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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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, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, someone consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in their powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of their endeavors.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
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The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!
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