The Man Who Is Too Busy To

Has Your Work Become Very Easy? Do You Find You Can Do It With Little Effort? Has It Ceased To Impose Any Strain Or Fatigue Upon You? Do You No Longer Feel Loss Of Vitality After A Long Spell Of It? Can You Now Do It As Easy As Water Rolls Off A Duck's Back? If So, Look Out! Do Some Stock-taking. Examine Your Output.... Work Done With Little Effort Is Likely To Yield Little Result. Every Job Can Be Done Excellently Or Indifferently. Excellence Necessitates Effort-hard, Sustained, Concentrated Effort.

Opportunity Rarely Knocks On Your Door. Knock Rather On Opportunity's Door If You Ardently Wish To Enter.

For My Part, I Rather Distrust Men Or Concerns That Rise Up With The Speed Of Rockets. Sudden Rises Are Sometimes Followed By Equally Sudden Falls. I Have Most Faith In The Individual Or Enterprise That Advances Step By Step. A Mushroom Can Spring Up In A Day; An Oak Takes 50 Years Or More To Reach Maturity. Mushrooms Don't Last; Oaks Do. The Real Cause For An Enormous Number Of Business Failures Is Premature Over-expansion, Attempting To Gallop Before Learning To Creep. Sudden Successes Often Invite Sudden Reverses.

Timing Is Everything. Tell Me How A Young Man Spends His Evenings And I Will Tell You How Far He Is Likely To Go In The World. The Popular Notion Is That A Youth's Progress Depends Upon How He Acts During His Working Hours. It Doesn't. It Depends Far More Upon How He Utilizes His Leisure...if He Spends It In Harmless Idleness, He Is Likely To Be Kept On The Payroll, But That Will Be About All. If He Diligently Utilizes His Own Time...to Fit Himself For More Responsible Duties, Then The Greater Responsibilities - And Greater Rewards - Are Almost Certain To Come To Him.

There Are Two Brands Of Discontent: The Brand That Merely Fosters Greed And Snarling And Back-biting, And The Brand That Inspires Greater And Greater Effort To Reach The Desired Goal. Which Is Your Brand?