Honesty Is The Cornerstone Of Character.

Success Is Sweetest To One Who Has Known Failure.

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.

It Is When Things Go Hardest, When Life Becomes Most Trying, That There Is Greatest Need For Having A Fixed Goal.

Uncertainty Hurts Business. It Annoys Individuals. Why Keep The Whole Country, Including Business And Individuals, In Uncertainty Over The Extent Of The Tax Burdens To Be Placed Upon Us? How Many Of Those Who Voted For Calvin Coolidge Imagined For A Moment That Would Do Nothing To Bring About Tax Relief Before 1926?.... But If The Administration Persists In Opposing A Special Session Then It Will Inevitably Be 1926 Before Action Is Taken.... Coolidge And Congress Should Ease Our Minds And Grease Our Activities By Reforming And Reducing Taxation As Soon As Feasible After March 4.

Talking Things Over Has Its Place In An Organization [but] So-called Conferences Are Being Grossly Overdone. One Executive Stops At The Desk Of Another To Tell Him, Perhaps, About The Wonderful Score He Made At Golf On Saturday Afternoon. This Chin-chin Immediately Becomes A Conference, And Neither The Office Boy Nor The Telephone Operator Must Disturb Either Gentleman. More Idle Gossip Is Indulged In At Many Business Conferences These Days Than An Old Wives' Sewing Circle Would Be Guilty Of.