I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable … - B. C. Forbes

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Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

B. C. Forbes

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

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