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I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.
Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.
Know and believe in yourself and what others think won't disturb you.
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.
Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.
Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.
After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.
Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure
A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
When ordering lunch, the big executives are just as indecisive as the rest of us.
An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.
BUSINESS and LIFE are like a bank account-you can't take out more than you put in.
Success makes us intolerant of failure and failure makes us intolerant of success.
Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?
Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
The only thrill worthwhile is the one that comes from making something out of yourself.
That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.
An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.
The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.
The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.
Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us.
He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.
Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.
We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.
Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.