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" There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment. "

Orison Swett Marden

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" Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give? "

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" Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house. "

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" I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it. "

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" You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle. "

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" Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. "

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" Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars. "

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" Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument. "

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" With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity. "

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" When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit. "

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" The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision. "

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" Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question. "

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" It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him. "

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" There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. "

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" There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem. "

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" Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward. "

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" He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning. "

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" The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. "

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" When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it. "

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" A good system shortens the road to the goal. "

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" No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price. "

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" There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. "

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" The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action. "

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" A will finds a way. "

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" One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency. "

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" Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. "

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" A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. "

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" The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.' "

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" It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer. "

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" There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands. "

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