A Manufacturer Is Not Through With His

Business Men Go Down With Their Businesses Because They Like The Old Way So Well They Cannot Bring Themselves To Change. One Sees Them All About - Men Who Do Not Know That Yesterday Is Past, And Who Woke Up This Morning With Their Last Year's Ideas.

I Foresee The Time When Industry Shall No Longer Denude The Forests Which Require Generations To Mature, Nor Use Up The Mines Which Were Ages In Making, But Shall Draw Its Raw Material Largely From The Annual Produce Of The Fields. I Am Convinced That We Shall Be Able To Get Out Of Yearly Crops Most Of The Basic Materials Which We Now Get From Forest And Mine.

Many People Are Busy Trying To Find Better Ways Of Doing Things That Should Not Have To Be Done At All. There Is No Progress In Merely Finding A Better Way To Do A Useless Thing.

Where People Work Longest And With Least Leisure, They Buy The Fewest Goods. No Towns Were So Poor As Those Of England Where The People, From Children Up, Worked Fifteen And Sixteen Hours A Day. They Were Poor Because These Overworked People Soon Wore Out -- They Became Less And Less Valuable As Workers. Therefore, They Earned Less And Less And Could Buy Less And Less.

Every Man Is Entitled To Make A Darn Fool Of Himself At Least Once In A Lifetime.