Friends and acquaintances are ...

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton

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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.