Christmas Moves Us To Think Of Others

Justice Must Be Blind To The Hardness Or Softness Of A Man's Hands, As Well As To The Leanness Or Fatness Of His Pocketbook

The Most Profitless Things To Manufacture Are Excuses.

Many Of The Most Successful Men I Have Known Have Never Grown Up. They Have Retained Bubbling-over Boyishness. They Have Relished Wit, They Have Indulged In Humor. They Have Not Allowed ‘dignity’ To Depress Them Into Moroseness. Youthfulness Of Spirit Is The Twin Brother Of Optimism, And Optimism Is The Stuff Of Which American Business Success Is Fashioned. Resist Growing Up!

The Bell Of Public Opinion Is Today Making The Morgan-rockefeller-vanderbilt Class Jump. Nor Are The Strongest Of Our Corporations Immune. The Railroads Have Had To Jump Pretty Lively, And Certain Gigantic Industrial Combinations Are Also Being Put Through Their Paces.

I Resolve For 1920 To Sit Down All By Myself And Take A Personal Stock-taking Once A Month. To Be No More Charitable In Viewing My Own Faults Than I Am An Viewing The Faults Of Others. To Face The Facts Candidly And Courageously. To Address Myself Carefully, Prayerfully, To Remedying Defects.