It Is Only The Farmer Who Faithfully

That Which Is Useless Dies. Animals That Fail To Serve Some Useful Purpose In The Scheme Of Things Slowly But Surely Become Extinct. Let Any Part Of The Human Body Cease To Perform Its Ordained Function, And It Withers-as When An Arm Is Kept Long In A Sling. This Same Decree, That Nothing Useless Is Permitted To Survive, Runs Through The Mind Of The Industrial World.

Call The Roll In Your Memory Of Conspicuously Successful [business] Giants And, If You Know Anything About Their Careers, You Will Be Struck By The Fact That Almost Every One Of Them Encountered Inordinate Difficulties Sufficient To Crush All But The Gamest Of Spirits. Edison Went Hungry Many Times Before He Became Famous.

Do Too Many Executives Still Indulge In The Short-sighted Habit Of Issuing Orders Without Taking The Slightest Pains To Explain To Those Responsible For Carrying Them Out The Whyfor And Wherefor Of The Orders? Where Employees Come In Daily And Hourly Contact With The Public, Surely It Is Important That Care Be Taken To Fit Them To Reply Intelligently To Courteous Questions. ""because Them Are Orders"" Isn't A Satisfying Reply-even Less Satisfactory To The Management Than To The Public.

Any Business Arrangement That Is Not Profitable To The Other Fellow Will In The End Prove Unprofitable For You. The Bargain That Yields Mutual Satisfaction Is The Only One That Is Apt To Be Repeated.

The Person Who Renders Loyal Service In A Humble Capacity Will Be Chosen For Higher Responsibilities, Just As The Biblical Servant Who Multiplied The One Pound Given Him By His Master Was Made Ruler Over Ten Cities.