Lady Luck Generally Woos Those Who Earnestly,

The More I Move Among Workers And Factories And Other Plants, The Stronger I Become Convinced That It Is Advisable To Have As [a Company] President A Practical Man, Preferably One Who Has Risen From The Very Bottom Of The Ladder. Workmen, I Find, Have Far More Respect For Such Men Than For Collar-and-cuff Executives Knowing Little Or Nothing About The Different Kinds Of Work Which Have To Be Done By The Workers. Wherever Circumstances Call For Placing A Financier Or Lawyer Or A Papa's Son At The Head Of A Large Organization, He Should Be Made Chairman Or Some Other Title, But Not President.

When It Comes To Betting On Yourself... You're A Chicken-livered Coward If You Hesitate.

How You Start Is Important, But It Is How You Finish That Counts. In The Race For Success, Speed Is Less Important Than Stamina. The Sticker Outlasts The Sprinter.

Had I Not Gone Through The Ordeal, In More Than One Country, Of Landing A Job, I Would He Tempted To Lose Patience Over The Number Of Letters Pouring In From Fellows Who Want Me Or Someone Else To Hand Them A Job On A Silver Platter With A Guarantee That They Will Receive The Wonderful Promotion Their Talents Warrant.... But A Tragic Number Of Young Men And Even Older Men Have A Notion That It Is Not Up To Them To Prosecute The Bettering Process. They Look To Someone Else To Perform The Trick For Them.

Many Concerns Now Make Part Or The Whole Of Their Dividends From By-products That Formerly Went To Waste. How Do We, As Individuals, Utilize Our Principal By-product? Our Principal By-product Is, Of Course, Our Leisure Time. Many Years Of Observation Forces The Conclusion That A Man's Success Or Failure In Life Is Determined As Much By How He Acts During His Leisure As By How He Acts During His Work Hours. Tell Me How A Young Man Spends His Evenings And I Will Tell You How He Is Likely To Spend The Latter Part Of His Life.