When It Comes To Betting On Yourself...

What You Have Outside You Counts Less Than What You Have Inside You.

Think Not Of Yourself As The Architect Of Your Career But As The Sculptor. Expect To Have To Do A Lot Of Hard Hammering And Chiselingand Scraping And Polishing.

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.

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?

The Bargain That Yields Mutual Satisfaction Is The Only One That Is Apt To Be Repeated.