The Man Who Is Cocksure

It Is Well For Civilization That Human Beings Constantly Strive To Gain Greater And Greater Rewards, For It Is This Urge, This Ambition, This Aspiration That Moves Men And Women To Bestir Themselves To Rise To Higher And Higher Achievement. Individual Success Is To Be Won In Most Instances By Studying And Diagnosing The Kind Of Rewards Human Hearts Seek Today And Are Likely To Seek Tomorrow.

A Young Financial Writer Once Brought Ridicule Upon Himself By Stating That A Certain Company Had Nothing To Commend It Except Excellent Earnings. Well, There Are Companies Whose Earnings Are Excellent But Whose Stocks I Would Never Recommend. In Selecting Investments, I Attach Prime Importance To The Men Behind Them. I'd Rather Buy Brains And Character Than Earnings. Earnings Can Be Good One Year And Poor The Next. But If You Put Your Money Into Securities Run By Men Combining Conspicuous Brains And Unimpeachable Character, The Likelihood Is That The Financial Results Will Prove Satisfactory.

Vitally Important For A Young Man Or Woman Is, First, To Realize The Value Of Education And Then To Cultivate Earnestly, Aggressively, Ceaselessly, The Habit Of Self-education.

Many Men Who Do Creditable Things Refuse To Let It Be Known. This Is A Mistake. While We All Admire Modesty, Nevertheless There Is A Great National Need To Do Everything Possible To Bring Home To The Rank And File Of The People That All Employers And All Wealthy Men Are Not Grinding, Mercenary, Selfish Skinflints, But That Many Of Them Take Delight In Doing Helpful Things For Others ... Shortcomings Of Employers Are Constantly Paraded. Why Not Let The Public Become Acquainted With The Better Side Which Most Present-day Employers Possess?

Henry Ford Has Several Times Sneered At Unproductive Stockholders.... Well, Now. Let's See. Who Made Henry Ford's Own Automobile Company Possible? The Stockholders Who Originally Advanced Money To Him. Who Makes It Possible For You And Me To Be Carried To And From Business By Train Or Street Car? Stockholders.... Who Made Our Vast Telephone And Telegraph Service Possible? Stockholders.... Were Stockholders All Over The Country To Withdraw Their Capital From The Enterprises In Which They Are Invested, There Would Be A Panic ... On A Scale Never Before Known.