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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.

The Person Who Renders Loyal Service In A Humble Capacity Will Be Chosen For Higher Responsibilities, Just As The Biblical Servant Who Multiplied The One Pound Given Him By His Master Was Made Ruler Over Ten Cities.

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 Man Who Is Too Busy To Read Is Never Likely To Lead.

Do Too Many Executives Still Indulge In The Short-sighted Habit Of Issuing Orders Without Taking The Slightest Pains To Explain To Those Responsible For Carrying Them Out The Whyfor And Wherefor Of The Orders? Where Employees Come In Daily And Hourly Contact With The Public, Surely It Is Important That Care Be Taken To Fit Them To Reply Intelligently To Courteous Questions. ""because Them Are Orders"" Isn't A Satisfying Reply-even Less Satisfactory To The Management Than To The Public.