"Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business"
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"The human mind is a channel through which things-to-be are coming into the realm of things-that-are ."
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"The most difficult job is the one that you never get started on."
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"Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right."
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"I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind."
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"The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do."
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"If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want."
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"That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness."
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"Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test."
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"It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard."
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"Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then."
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"If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of."
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"To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form."
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"One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be."
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"An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things."
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"A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men."
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"We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet."
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"Many persons think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless. The security even of money depends on knowledge, experience, and ability. If productive ideas are displaced by destructive ideas, economic life suffers."
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"There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail"
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"Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence."
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