Acting Without Thinking Is Like Shooting Without

When You Delve Deep Enough, You Find That Practically Every Great Fortune And Great Enterprise In America Have Sprung From The Courageous Enterprise Of Some Individual. It Was Commodore Vanderbilt's Enterprise In Switching First From Running A Ferryboat To Running Other Ships, And Then, When He Was Well Along In Years, His Enterprise In Switching Into Railroading, That Created What Was To Become One Of The Most Notable Fortunes In The History Of The World.

Diamonds Are Only Lumps Of Coal That Stuck To Their Jobs.

Henry Ward Beecher, So The Story Goes, Was Once Asked By A Young Preacher How He Could Keep His Congregation Wide Awake And Attentive During His Sermons. Beecher Replied That He Always Had A Man Watch For Sleepers, With Instructions, As Soon As He Saw Anyone Start Nodding Or Dozing, To Hasten To The Pulpit And Wake Up The Preacher. Aren't You And I Usually Less Sensible? Would We Not Be Inclined To Have The Watcher Wake Up Not Ourselves But The Fellows Caught Sleeping? In Other Words, Aren't We Disposed Always To Blame Others?

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 Man Who Is Bigger Than His Job Keeps Cool. He Does Not Lose His Head, He Refuses To Become Rattled, To Fly Off In A Temper. The Man Who Would Control Others Must Be Able To Control Himself. There Is Something Admirable, Something Inspiring, Something Soul-stirring About A Man Who Displays Coolness And Courage Under Extremely Trying Circumstances. A Good Temper Is Not Only A Business Asset. It Is The Secret Of Health. The Longer You Live, The More You Will Learn That A Disordered Temper Breeds A Disordered Body.