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An Idea, Like A Machine, Must Have Power Applied To It Before It Can Accomplish Anything.

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.

Accuse American Businessmen Of Being Responsible For Radicalism And They Would Indignantly Deny The Accusation. Yet, In One Fundamental Sense, They Are Responsible. They Are Responsible In The Sense That They Have Utterly Neglected To Take Part In The Work And The Organization Which Precede The Choosing Of Candidates For Political Office. Local Political Organizations All Over The Land Are Conducted And Controlled, As A Rule, By Politicians.... Businessmen Have Shirked Such Responsibilities, Leaving An Untrammeled Field To Others Less Capable Of Carrying On The Administration Of Government.

The Truth Doesn't Hurt Unless It Ought To.

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.