Success Consists Of Being And

The Man Who Has Done His Level Best... Is A Success, Even Though The World May Write Him Down A Failure.

The Young Man Who Addresses Himself In Stern Earnest To Organizing His Life-his Habits, His Associations, His Reading, His Study, His Work-stands Far More Chance Of Rising To A Position Affording Him Opportunity To Exercise His Organizing Abilities Than The Fellow Who Dawdles Along Without Chart Or Compass, Without Plan Or Purpose, Without Self-improvement And Self-discipline.

What One Thing Does The World Need Most Today-apart, That Is, From The All-inclusive Thing We Call Righteousness? Aren't You Inclined To Agree That What This Old World Needs Is Just The Art Of Being Kind? Every Time I Visit A Factory Or Any Other Large Business Concern, I Find Myself Trying To Diagnose Whether The Atmosphere Is One Of Kindliness Or The Reverse. And Somehow, If There Is Palpably Lacking That Spirit Of Kindness, The Owners ... Have Fallen Short Of Achieving 24-carat Success No Matter How Imposing The Financial Balance Sheet May Be.

Is America Becoming Decadent? Do We No Longer Regard Our Promises And Pledges As Sacred? ... We Promised To Make Peace With Germany Only In Conjunction With The Allies; But We Brought Forward A Separate Peace, Demanding For Ourselves All The Advantages Of The Treaty Of Versailles But Rejecting All The Responsibilities Embodied In The Treaty. It Was America's President Who Induced Europe To Form A League Of Nations; And Then America Was The First Country That Refused To Joint It.... If These Are Not The Symptoms Of National Decadency, What Are They?

Are Soft-hearted People Handicapped In Business? You Have Heard A Businessman Say Of Someone Else, He's All Right, But He's Too Soft-hearted.... To Be Soft-hearted May Be Handicapping, In A Sense. But On The Whole, A Soft Heart Is To Be Preferred To A Hard Heart. Hard-hearted, Severe, Dominating Giants Sometimes Manage To Get Further And To Amass More Money. But They Get Less Genuine Joy Out Of Life.... It Is The Hard-boiled Employer, Not The Soft-hearted Species, That Incites Most Of Our Strikes And Does Most To Endanger The Harmonious Progress Of Democracy.