Vitally Important For A Young Man Or

When It Comes To Betting On Yourself... You're A Chicken-livered Coward If You Hesitate.

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.

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.

Don't Forget Until Too Late That The Business Of Life Is Not Business But Living.

The British Have Their Own Conception Of What Constitutes The Typical American. He Must Have A Flavor Of The Wild West About Him. He Must Do Spectacular Things. He Must Not Be Punctilious About Dignity, Decorum And Other Refinements Characteristic Of The Real British Gentleman. The Yankee Pictured By The Briton Must Be A Bustler. If He Is Occasionally Flagrantly Indiscreet In Speech And Action, Then He Is So Much More Surely Stamped The Genuine Article. The Most Typical American The British Ever Set Their Eyes On Was, In Their Judgment, Theodore Roosevelt.