Business is a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way you use them.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
NEW: Obstacles should be regarded merely as obstacles, not as stopping-places.
Within every adversity is the the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
Man is not rewarded for having brains, but for using them.
NEW: A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.
Do you act,or react?
NEW: Discipline: it's not the hours you put in that counts, it's what you put in the hours.
He that never climbed never fell.   - John Heywood
Storms make oaks take deeper root.   - George Herbert
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To handle yourself, use your head;  to handle others, use you heart.
NEW: Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
As a blossom cannot tell what becomes of its fragrance, so no one can tell what becomes of his influence.
Would you want to be friends with you?
Let the other fellow talk occasionally.  You can't learn much listening to yourself.
Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.
Speech is the index of the mind.
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Past experience should be a guide post, not a hitching post.
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there fast.
