Work Done With Little Effort Is Likely

With All Thy Getting, Get Understanding, Is The Banner Under Which These Forbes Editorials Have Appeared Since The First Issue Of The Publication. We Have No Illusions About What Great Wealth Can Do And What It Cannot Do. We Believe In The Worthwhileness Of Striving By All Worthy Means To Attain Success And To Attain Wealth. Simply Because We Are Convinced That No Amount Of Money Is Worth The Sacrifice Of One's Better Instincts, Of One's Self-respect-of One's Soul, If You Wish-simply Because We Are Convinced That Riches Not Gained Legitimately And Decently Are Not Worth Having.

Golf Is An Ideal Diversion, But A Ruinous Disease.

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

Which Class Is Happiest, The Rich, The Middle Class Or The Poor? A Very Successful Executive Of A Large Organization Touches Upon This Vital Subject In A Long Letter To All His Salesmen. He Uses As His Text A Passage From Robinson Crusoe Which Included This: ""my Father Bid Me Observe It, And I Should Always Find That The Calamities Of Life Were Shared Among The Upper And Lower Part Of Mankind; But That The Middle Station Had The Fewest Disasters, And Were Not Exposed To So Many Vicissitudes As The Higher Or Lower Part Of Mankind.

I Don't Feel Myself That I Know It All, But I Have Enough Conceit To Be Successful. That Observation Was Made By A Businessman In His 30s Who Was Making Notable Headway, Although His Path Bristled With Difficulties. Business Places No Premiums On Shrinking Violets. Employers Prefer Men Who Have Self-assurance, Forcefulness, Go-aheadness, Men Who Know Their Jobs And Know That They Know It.