It's So Much Easier To Do Good

The Fittest, Not The Richest, Make The Most Enviable Mark. Pampered Sons Of Plutocrats May Shine For A Time In Society, But Not In The World Of Affairs And Of Service Unless They Rip Off Their Coats And Get To Work Early And Stay Late. To Be Born With A Golden Spoon In The Mouth Is More Of A Handicap Than A Help In Attaining Worthwhile Success In This Age.

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!

Which Class Is Happiest, The Rich, The Middle Class Or The Poor? A Very Successful Executive Of A Large Organization Touches Upon This Vital Subject In A Long Letter To All His Salesmen. He Uses As His Text A Passage From Robinson Crusoe Which Included This: ""my Father Bid Me Observe It, And I Should Always Find That The Calamities Of Life Were Shared Among The Upper And Lower Part Of Mankind; But That The Middle Station Had The Fewest Disasters, And Were Not Exposed To So Many Vicissitudes As The Higher Or Lower Part Of Mankind.

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 Things That Are Most Worthwhile In Life Are Really Those Within The Reach Of Almost Every Normal Human Being Who Cares To Seek Them Out.