A Shady Business Never Yields A Sunny

After Visiting Several Of America's Most Fashionable Playgrounds, I Have Reached The Conclusion That Men Who Work Hard Enjoy Life Most. The Men At Such Places Can Be Divided Into Two Classes, First, Busy Men Of Affairs ... And, Second, Rich Loafers. I Was Impressed By The Obvious Enjoyment Corporation Heads And Other Important Executives Were Deriving From Their Vacation Activities.... The Idle Rich Fellows, On The Other Hand, Although Indulging In Exactly The Same Activities, Palpably Were Bored.

That Which Is Useless Dies. Animals That Fail To Serve Some Useful Purpose In The Scheme Of Things Slowly But Surely Become Extinct. Let Any Part Of The Human Body Cease To Perform Its Ordained Function, And It Withers-as When An Arm Is Kept Long In A Sling. This Same Decree, That Nothing Useless Is Permitted To Survive, Runs Through The Mind Of The Industrial World.

The Truth Doesn't Hurt Unless It Ought To.

Call The Roll In Your Memory Of Conspicuously Successful [business] Giants And, If You Know Anything About Their Careers, You Will Be Struck By The Fact That Almost Every One Of Them Encountered Inordinate Difficulties Sufficient To Crush All But The Gamest Of Spirits. Edison Went Hungry Many Times Before He Became Famous.

Think Not Of Yourself As The Architect Of Your Career But As The Sculptor. Expect To Have To Do A Lot Of Hard Hammering And Chiselingand Scraping And Polishing.