The Man Who Is Intent On Making

Frank W. Woolworth Once Told Me That The Turning-point In His Career Did Not Come Until He Was Thrown Flat On His Back By Illness. He Was Sure That His Business Would Go To Pieces During His Long, Enforced Absence. Instead, He Discovered That He Had In His Employ Men Who Could Overcome Difficulties When Given Power To Exercise Initiative. After That Woolworth Left Many Problems And Difficulties To Be Solved By Subordinates And Turned His Attention To Big Things.

Judgment Can Be Acquired Only By Acute Observation, By Actual Experience In The School Of Life, By Ceaseless Alertness To Learn From Others, By Study Of The Activities Of Men Who Have Made Notable Marks, By Striving To Analyze The Everyday Play Of Causes And Effects, By Constant Study Of Human Nature.

Ugliness, Squalor Are Breeding Grounds For Revolution. Beauty Is Conducive To Tranquillity, Happiness. Beautifying Of Homes And Places Of Worship Began With The Dawn Of Civilization. Beautifying Of Workplaces Is Only In Its Infancy. Yet, Since Men Normally Spend More Than Half Of Their Waking Hours At Work, Surely It Is Important That Adequate Attention Be Devoted To Elevating Their Working Environment, Whether Office Or Factory, Foundry Or Machine Shop, Mine Or Warehouse. Beautiful Surroundings Subtly Encourage Beautiful Living. Drab Surroundings, Bad Air, Bad Light, Evoke Bad Reactions.

Call The Roll In Your Memory Of Conspicuously Successful [business] Giants And, If You Know Anything About Their Careers, You Will Be Struck By The Fact That Almost Every One Of Them Encountered Inordinate Difficulties Sufficient To Crush All But The Gamest Of Spirits. Edison Went Hungry Many Times Before He Became Famous.

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.