[mildweed]

There are a lot of good motivational/business advice passages in the Bible, I'd be interested to see if somebody's assembled all of those into a collection.

[mmavnn]

A lot of them are already conveniently gathered in the book of Proverbs (see my comment above)

[b_emery]

This was done, by no less than Thomas Jefferson:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible

resulting in a 46 page bible.