Triumph Often Is Nearest When Defeat Seems

What You Have Outside You Counts Less Than What You Have Inside You.

New Year, The Season For Changes In Positions And Advances In Salaries, Approaches. If You Have In Your Employ Some Who Deserve More Salary, Do Not Compel Them To Go Through The Unpleasant Ordeal Of Asking A Raise, But, Rather, Voluntarily Increase Their Remuneration. A Raise That Comes From The Boss Without Asking Is Worth A Lot More Than One That Has To Be Gouged Out Of Him. Is It Not True That A Great Many Employers Who Would Not Dream Of Overcharging Their Customers Have No Qualms Whatever About Underpaying Their Employees If The Latter Will Submit Without Protest?

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.

There Is No Fun Equal To The Satisfaction Of Doing One's Best. The Things That Are Most Worthwhile In Life Are Really Those Within The Reach Of Almost Every Normal Human Being Who Cares To Seek Them Out.

The Most Profitless Things To Manufacture Are Excuses.