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What Would You Call America's Most Priceless Asset? Surely Not Its Limitless Natural Resources, Not Its Matchless National Wealth, Not Its Unequalled Store Of Gold, Not Its Giant Factories, Not Its Surpassing Railroads, Not Its Unprecedented Volume Of Cheap Power. Is Not Its Most Priceless Asset The Character Of Its People, Their Indomitable Self-confidence, Their Transcendent Vision, Their Sleepless Initiative And, Perhaps Above All, Their Inherent, Irrepressible Optimism?

It Is The Hard-boiled Employer, Not The Soft-hearted Species, That Incites Most Of Our Strikes And Does Most Ot Endanger The Harmonious Progress Of Democracy.

A Big Business Man Was Telling Henry Ford About A Coach Driver Of Super-expertness With His Whip. The Driver Was Telling How He Could Flick A Fly Off His Horse's Ear With His Whip-and, A Fly Alighting Just Then, He Promptly Did So. Next He Spied A Grasshopper Beside The Road, And He Flicked It Off With Equal Dexterity. A Little Further Along The Road The Passenger Noticed An Insect On A Bush, And Nudged The Driver To Get Him. Not On Your Life, Replied The Master Of The Whip. That There Insect Is A Hornet Sitting On His Nest With An Organization Behind Him. I Leave Him Alone.

Vitally Important For A Young Man Or Woman Is, First, To Realize The Value Of Education And Then To Cultivate Earnestly, Aggressively, Ceaselessly, The Habit Of Self-education.

New Year, The Season For Changes In Positions And Advances In Salaries, Approaches. If You Have In Your Employ Some Who Deserve More Salary, Do Not Compel Them To Go Through The Unpleasant Ordeal Of Asking A Raise, But, Rather, Voluntarily Increase Their Remuneration. A Raise That Comes From The Boss Without Asking Is Worth A Lot More Than One That Has To Be Gouged Out Of Him. Is It Not True That A Great Many Employers Who Would Not Dream Of Overcharging Their Customers Have No Qualms Whatever About Underpaying Their Employees If The Latter Will Submit Without Protest?