To Make Headway, Improve Your Head.

It Is Easier To Start Taxes Than To Stop Them. A Tax An Inch Long Can Easily Become A Yard Long. That Has Been The History Of The Income Tax. Would Not The Sales Tax Be Likely To Have A Similar History [in The U.s.]? ... Canadian Newspapers Report That An Increase In The Sales Tax Threatens To Drive The Mackenzie King Administration Out Of Office. Canada Began With A Sales Tax Of 2%.... Starting This Month The Tax Is 6%. The Burden, In Other Words, Has Already Been Increased 200% ... What The U.s. Needs Is Not New Taxes, Is Not More Taxes, But Fewer And Lower Taxes.

It Is A Great Mistake For Presidents And Other Leading Executives Of Organizations Having Branches Throughout The Country To Chain Themselves To Their Desks At Headquarters And Send Out Rigid Instructions To Those In Charge Of Distant Branches And Offices. Because A Man Sits In A Palatial Office In New York Or Chicago Or Philadelphia Or Detroit And Draws A Big Salary, It Does Not Necessarily Follow That He Knows Better Than The Man On The Spot What Ought To Be Done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon Did Not Merely Sit At Home And Issue Long-range Instructions.

Has Your Work Become Very Easy? Do You Find You Can Do It With Little Effort? Has It Ceased To Impose Any Strain Or Fatigue Upon You? Do You No Longer Feel Loss Of Vitality After A Long Spell Of It? Can You Now Do It As Easy As Water Rolls Off A Duck's Back? If So, Look Out! Do Some Stock-taking. Examine Your Output.... Work Done With Little Effort Is Likely To Yield Little Result. Every Job Can Be Done Excellently Or Indifferently. Excellence Necessitates Effort-hard, Sustained, Concentrated Effort.

How You Start Is Important, Very Important, But In The End It Is How You Finish That Counts. It Is Easier To Be A Self-starter Than A Self-finisher. The Victor In The Race Is Not The One Who Dashes Off Swiftest But The One Who Leads At The Finish. In The Race For Success, Speed Is Less Important Than Stamina. The Sticker Outlasts The Sprinter In Life's Race. In America We Breed Many Hares But Not So Many Tortoises.

To Get The Most Out Of The World One Must Conscientiously Strive To Put The Most Into It. Life Without Worthy Ideals Becomes Wholly Unsatisfying, Sour. If Our Supreme Objective Is To Serve, No Blow Fate May Administer Can Daunt Us.