Success Consists Of Being And Doing, Not

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.

Upon Our Children-how They Are Taught-rests The Fate-or Fortune-of Tomorrow's World.

He Is A Wise Man Who Seeks By Every Legitimate Means To Make All The Money He Can Honestly, For Money Can Do So Many Worthwhile Things In This World, Not Merely For One's Self But For Others. But He Is An Unmitigated Fool Who Imagines For A Moment That It Is More Important To Make The Money Than To Make It Honestly. One Of The Advantages Of Possessing Money Is That It Facilitates One's Independence And Mental Attitude. The Man Head Over Heels In Debt Is More Slave Than Independent.

Managing The Other Fellow's Business Is A Fascinating Game. Trade Unionists All Over The Country Have Pronounced Ideas For The Reform Of Wall Street Banks; And Wall Street Bankers Are Not Far Behind In Giving Plans For The Tremendous Improvement Of Trade Union Policies. Wholesalers Have Schemes For Improving The Retailer; The Retailer Knows Just What Is Wrong In The Conduct Of Wholesale Business-and We Might Go Through A Long List.... Yet For Some Reason The Classes That Ought To Be Helped Keep On Stubbornly Clinging To Their Own Method Of Running Their Affairs.

The Man Of Fixed Ingrained Principles Who Has Mapped Out A Straight Course, And Has The Courage And Self-control To Adhere To It, Does Not Find Life Complex. Complexities Are All Of Our Own Making.