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Walter Annenberg

Walter Hubert Annenberg (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and diplomat. Annenberg owned and operated Triangle Publications, which included ownership of the Philadelphia Inquirer, TV Guide, the Daily Racing Form and Seventeen magazine. He was appointed by President Richard Nixon as United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in the United Kingdom, where he served from 1969 to 1974.

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I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.

Based, Competence, Inspirational, Order, Persistence

Be respectful to others as you grow. . . If we lack respect for one group, then there is a tendency for that attitude to spread. It becomes infectious and no one becomes safe from the ravages of prejudice.

Attitude, Groups, Lack, Ravages, Respect

Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.

Although, Blood, Blue, Eye, Turn

My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.

Be Good, Country, Good, Very Good

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.

Contribute, Gainer, Participate

You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.

Benefit, Benefits, Contributing, Satisfied, Unless

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

Energies, Energy, Excites, Happiness, Interested, Vitally

Few things are as essential as education.

Aquariums, Education, Essential, Essentials, Things

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

Bind, Easy, Enthusiasm, Intrigue

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

Art, Investment, People, Thinking

Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.

Buy, Collecting, Painting, Should

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Blessing, Boredom, Knots, Tie, Ties

Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

Done, Good, House, White

Just to pile up money for my own sake, I just can't view that as good citizenship.

Citizenship, Good, Pile, Sake, Views

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

Adversity, Tests, Inevitable, Time, Testing

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

Babe, Ruth, Struck, Worry

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

Born, Moses, Son

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

Brought, Economic, Life, Mainstream, Unless, Young

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

College, Doe, Educated, Education, World, Young

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Bad, Believed, Character, Mark, Pigs, Want

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