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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.

Opportunity Rarely Knocks On Your Door. Knock Rather On Opportunity's Door If You Ardently Wish To Enter.

A Business Like An Automobile, Has To Be Driven, In Order To Get Results.

First Make Sure That What You Aspire To Accomplish Is Worth Accomplishing, And Then Throw Your Whole Vitality Into It. What's Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Well. And To Do Anything Well, Wheter It Be Typing A Letter Or Drawing Up An Agreement Involving Millions, We Must Give Not Only Our Hands To The Doing Of It, But Our Brains, Our Enthusiasm, The Best - All That Is In Us. The Task To Which You Dedicate Yourself Can Never Become A Drudgery.

A Young Financial Writer Once Brought Ridicule Upon Himself By Stating That A Certain Company Had Nothing To Commend It Except Excellent Earnings. Well, There Are Companies Whose Earnings Are Excellent But Whose Stocks I Would Never Recommend. In Selecting Investments, I Attach Prime Importance To The Men Behind Them. I'd Rather Buy Brains And Character Than Earnings. Earnings Can Be Good One Year And Poor The Next. But If You Put Your Money Into Securities Run By Men Combining Conspicuous Brains And Unimpeachable Character, The Likelihood Is That The Financial Results Will Prove Satisfactory.