A Business Like An Automobile, Has To

Had I Not Gone Through The Ordeal, In More Than One Country, Of Landing A Job, I Would He Tempted To Lose Patience Over The Number Of Letters Pouring In From Fellows Who Want Me Or Someone Else To Hand Them A Job On A Silver Platter With A Guarantee That They Will Receive The Wonderful Promotion Their Talents Warrant.... But A Tragic Number Of Young Men And Even Older Men Have A Notion That It Is Not Up To Them To Prosecute The Bettering Process. They Look To Someone Else To Perform The Trick For Them.

The More I Move Among Workers And Factories And Other Plants, The Stronger I Become Convinced That It Is Advisable To Have As [a Company] President A Practical Man, Preferably One Who Has Risen From The Very Bottom Of The Ladder. Workmen, I Find, Have Far More Respect For Such Men Than For Collar-and-cuff Executives Knowing Little Or Nothing About The Different Kinds Of Work Which Have To Be Done By The Workers. Wherever Circumstances Call For Placing A Financier Or Lawyer Or A Papa's Son At The Head Of A Large Organization, He Should Be Made Chairman Or Some Other Title, But Not President.

After Visiting Several Of America's Most Fashionable Playgrounds, I Have Reached The Conclusion That Men Who Work Hard Enjoy Life Most. The Men At Such Places Can Be Divided Into Two Classes, First, Busy Men Of Affairs ... And, Second, Rich Loafers. I Was Impressed By The Obvious Enjoyment Corporation Heads And Other Important Executives Were Deriving From Their Vacation Activities.... The Idle Rich Fellows, On The Other Hand, Although Indulging In Exactly The Same Activities, Palpably Were Bored.

Jealousy... Is A Mental Cancer.

Managing The Other Fellow's Business Is A Fascinating Game. Trade Unionists All Over The Country Have Pronounced Ideas For The Reform Of Wall Street Banks; And Wall Street Bankers Are Not Far Behind In Giving Plans For The Tremendous Improvement Of Trade Union Policies. Wholesalers Have Schemes For Improving The Retailer; The Retailer Knows Just What Is Wrong In The Conduct Of Wholesale Business-and We Might Go Through A Long List.... Yet For Some Reason The Classes That Ought To Be Helped Keep On Stubbornly Clinging To Their Own Method Of Running Their Affairs.