Eminent Jews of America

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S.B. Goodkind, publication manager, the American Hebrew biographical Company, incorporated, 1918 - 335 ページ
 

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171 ページ - Believe me, the talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, — without a thought of fame.
155 ページ - O toiling hands of mortals ! O unwearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness ; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
223 ページ - Look out for the boy who has to plunge into work direct from the common school and who begins by sweeping out the office. He is the probable dark horse that you had better watch.
141 ページ - All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory!
171 ページ - ... for this period has demonstrated the value of a college education. It used to be a popular theory that strong men who had won great places in the business world would have been ruined if they had been educated. The better belief is that on account of genius and special capacity they succeeded in spite of their disadvantages.
79 ページ - Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard, and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
122 ページ - Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and grovelling thing, that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny...
79 ページ - An English judge being asked what contributed most to success at the bar, replied, " Some succeed by great talent, some by the influence of friends, some by a miracle, but the majority by commencing without a shilling.

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