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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.

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.

Thomas Edison Reads Not For Entertainment But To Increase His Store Of Knowledge. He Sucks In Information As Eagerly As The Bee Sucks Honey From Flowers. The Whole World, So To Speak, Pours Its Wisdom Into His Mind. He Regards It As A Criminal Waste Of Time To Go Through The Slow And Painful Ordeal Of Ascertaining Things For One's Self If These Same Things Have Already Been Ascertained And Made Available By Others. In Edison's Mind Knowledge Is Power.

Summer, With Its Dog Days, Its Vacations, Its Distractions, Is Over. We Have Had Our Holidays, Our Rest, Our Recreation. The Fall Season, With Its New Opportunities For Effort, Enterprise And Achievement, Is Upon Us. Let Us Rip Off Our Coats And Get Down To Business. We May Have Allowed Pessimism To Grip Us During The Summer Months. We May Even Have Allowed Laziness To Enter Our Bones. Now It Is Up To Us To Throw Off Both Lassitude And Pessimism. The Time Has Come For Action, For Aggressiveness.

Use Life To Provide Something That Outlasts It.