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You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
Give fools the first and women the last word.
When the tongue lies, the eyes tell the truth.
Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.
You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.
The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.
True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.
A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.
When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.
When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.
In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.
A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.
It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.
The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.
The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.
Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.
When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.
Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.
The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.
A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.
The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.
Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.
Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.
Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.
Having money and buying things with money is a good thing. But also do not forget to check occasionally to lose if you do not buy anything with money or not
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.
Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
Theres no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that hes chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.
Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are: Have something to say. Say it. Stop talking.
There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.
Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.
And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.
Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.
When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.
