It's So Much Easier To Do Good

Difficulties Should Act As A Tonic. They Should Spur Us To Greater Exertion.

Many Concerns Now Make Part Or The Whole Of Their Dividends From By-products That Formerly Went To Waste. How Do We, As Individuals, Utilize Our Principal By-product? Our Principal By-product Is, Of Course, Our Leisure Time. Many Years Of Observation Forces The Conclusion That A Man's Success Or Failure In Life Is Determined As Much By How He Acts During His Leisure As By How He Acts During His Work Hours. Tell Me How A Young Man Spends His Evenings And I Will Tell You How He Is Likely To Spend The Latter Part Of His Life.

Judgment Can Be Acquired Only By Acute Observation, By Actual Experience In The School Of Life, By Ceaseless Alertness To Learn From Others, By Study Of The Activities Of Men Who Have Made Notable Marks, By Striving To Analyze The Everyday Play Of Causes And Effects, By Constant Study Of Human Nature.

Managing The Other Fellow's Business Is A Fascinating Game. Trade Unionists All Over The Country Have Pronounced Ideas For The Reform Of Wall Street Banks; And Wall Street Bankers Are Not Far Behind In Giving Plans For The Tremendous Improvement Of Trade Union Policies. Wholesalers Have Schemes For Improving The Retailer; The Retailer Knows Just What Is Wrong In The Conduct Of Wholesale Business-and We Might Go Through A Long List.... Yet For Some Reason The Classes That Ought To Be Helped Keep On Stubbornly Clinging To Their Own Method Of Running Their Affairs.

Opportunity Rarely Knocks On Your Door. Knock Rather On Opportunity's Door If You Ardently Wish To Enter.