A Shady Business Never Yields A Sunny

The Person Who Renders Loyal Service In A Humble Capacity Will Be Chosen For Higher Responsibilities, Just As The Biblical Servant Who Multiplied The One Pound Given Him By His Master Was Made Ruler Over Ten Cities.

Henry Ford Has Several Times Sneered At Unproductive Stockholders.... Well, Now. Let's See. Who Made Henry Ford's Own Automobile Company Possible? The Stockholders Who Originally Advanced Money To Him. Who Makes It Possible For You And Me To Be Carried To And From Business By Train Or Street Car? Stockholders.... Who Made Our Vast Telephone And Telegraph Service Possible? Stockholders.... Were Stockholders All Over The Country To Withdraw Their Capital From The Enterprises In Which They Are Invested, There Would Be A Panic ... On A Scale Never Before Known.

...the Incontestable Truth Is That America Has Been Built Up By Optimists, Not By Pessimists, But By Men Possessing Courage, Confidence In The Nation's Destiny, By Men Willing To Adventure, To Shoulder Risks Terrifying To The Timid.

What You Have Outside You Counts Less Than What You Have Inside You.

With All Thy Getting, Get Understanding, Is The Banner Under Which These Forbes Editorials Have Appeared Since The First Issue Of The Publication. We Have No Illusions About What Great Wealth Can Do And What It Cannot Do. We Believe In The Worthwhileness Of Striving By All Worthy Means To Attain Success And To Attain Wealth. Simply Because We Are Convinced That No Amount Of Money Is Worth The Sacrifice Of One's Better Instincts, Of One's Self-respect-of One's Soul, If You Wish-simply Because We Are Convinced That Riches Not Gained Legitimately And Decently Are Not Worth Having.