In The Race For Success, Speed Is

The Most Famous Self-made Man In The World Today Is Our Own Edison. Talk With Mr. Edison And He Will Tell You He Owes Much If Not Most Of His Success To Omnivorous Reading. Forbes Is One Of His Favorite Publications. How Closely He Reads It Can Be Gathered From A Letter Just Received From Him In Which He Asks The Editor To Forward A Long Analytical Letter To The Writer Of A Series Of Articles Which Contained Two Figures Mr. Edison Questions, And He Wants To Know Exactly On What Authority Or Investigation They Were Based. Both Letters Were The Product Of Mr. Edison And Were Signed By Him.

What You Have Outside You Counts Less Than What You Have Inside You.

How Many Men I Know Who Are Earning Dollars Aplenty, But Who Are Really Earning Little Of What Counts. They Are So Overwhelmingly Engrossed In Business That They Get Nothing From Their Dollars. The Juggernaut Of Dollar-making Has Crushed Out Of Them Every Capacity For Genuine Enjoyment, Every Grace, Every Unselfish Sentiment And Instinct.

Now, Ideas Are The Raw Material Of Progress. Everything First Takes Shape In The Form Of An Idea. But An Idea Itself Is Worth Nothing. An Idea, Like A Machine, Must Have Power Applied To It Before It Can Accomplish Anything. The Men Who Have Won Fame And Fortune Through Having An Idea Are Those Who Devoted Every Ounce Of Their Strength And Every Dollar They Could Muster To Putting It Into Operation. Ford Had A Big Idea, But He Had To Sweat And Suffer And Sacrifice To Make It Work.

If You Don't Drive Your Business, You Will Be Driven Out Of Business.