What You Have Outside You Counts Less

The Real Friend Is He Or She Who Can Share All Our Sorrow And Double Our Joys.

There Is More Credit And Satisfaction In Being A First-rate Truck Driver Than A Tenth-rate Executive.

Which Is More Worthwhile Earning: A Large Fortune Or The Esteem And Gratitude Of The Nation? This Question Is Prompted Anew By The Death Of Ex-secretary Of The Interior [franklin K.] Lane. He Remained In Public Service, Doing Most Noble Work, Until His Means Became Absolutely Exhausted, And He Died Before Having Had The Opportunity To Reaccumulate Any Bank Account.... He Died Leaving No Estate Whatsoever. Is What He Did Leave More To Be Desired, More To Be Coveted, Than A Fortune Reaching Into Six Or Seven Figures?

It Is When Things Go Hardest, When Life Becomes Most Trying, That There Is The Greatest Need For Having A Fixed Goal, For Having An Air Castle That The Outside World Cannot Wreck. When Few Comforts Come From Without, It Is All The More Necessary To Have A Fount To Draw From Within. And The Man Or Woman Who Has A Star Toward Which To Press Cannot Be Thrown Off The Course, No Matter How The World May Try, No Matter How Far Things Seem To Be Wrong.

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.