Acting Without Thinking Is Like Shooting Without

With All Thy Getting, Get Understanding, Is The Banner Under Which These Forbes Editorials Have Appeared Since The First Issue Of The Publication. We Have No Illusions About What Great Wealth Can Do And What It Cannot Do. We Believe In The Worthwhileness Of Striving By All Worthy Means To Attain Success And To Attain Wealth. Simply Because We Are Convinced That No Amount Of Money Is Worth The Sacrifice Of One's Better Instincts, Of One's Self-respect-of One's Soul, If You Wish-simply Because We Are Convinced That Riches Not Gained Legitimately And Decently Are Not Worth Having.

Real Riches Are The Riches Possessed Inside.

Many Concerns Now Make Part Or The Whole Of Their Dividends From By-products That Formerly Went To Waste. How Do We, As Individuals, Utilize Our Principal By-product? Our Principal By-product Is, Of Course, Our Leisure Time. Many Years Of Observation Forces The Conclusion That A Man's Success Or Failure In Life Is Determined As Much By How He Acts During His Leisure As By How He Acts During His Work Hours. Tell Me How A Young Man Spends His Evenings And I Will Tell You How He Is Likely To Spend The Latter Part Of His Life.

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.

Do Too Many Executives Still Indulge In The Short-sighted Habit Of Issuing Orders Without Taking The Slightest Pains To Explain To Those Responsible For Carrying Them Out The Whyfor And Wherefor Of The Orders? Where Employees Come In Daily And Hourly Contact With The Public, Surely It Is Important That Care Be Taken To Fit Them To Reply Intelligently To Courteous Questions. ""because Them Are Orders"" Isn't A Satisfying Reply-even Less Satisfactory To The Management Than To The Public.