If A Pig Could Pray, It Would

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.

What One Thing Does The World Need Most Today-apart, That Is, From The All-inclusive Thing We Call Righteousness? Aren't You Inclined To Agree That What This Old World Needs Is Just The Art Of Being Kind? Every Time I Visit A Factory Or Any Other Large Business Concern, I Find Myself Trying To Diagnose Whether The Atmosphere Is One Of Kindliness Or The Reverse. And Somehow, If There Is Palpably Lacking That Spirit Of Kindness, The Owners ... Have Fallen Short Of Achieving 24-carat Success No Matter How Imposing The Financial Balance Sheet May Be.

Some People Are So Methodical That That Is All They Are Or Ever Will Be.

I Have Never Seen People Who Could Do Real Work Except Under The Stimulus Of Encouragement And Enthusiasm And The Approval Of The People For Whom They Are Working.

Time Mends All, Ends All Things Earthly.