The Men Who Have Done Big Things

If You Don't Drive Your Business, You Will Be Driven Out Of Business.

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.

Talking Things Over Has Its Place In An Organization [but] So-called Conferences Are Being Grossly Overdone. One Executive Stops At The Desk Of Another To Tell Him, Perhaps, About The Wonderful Score He Made At Golf On Saturday Afternoon. This Chin-chin Immediately Becomes A Conference, And Neither The Office Boy Nor The Telephone Operator Must Disturb Either Gentleman. More Idle Gossip Is Indulged In At Many Business Conferences These Days Than An Old Wives' Sewing Circle Would Be Guilty Of.

Mediocre Men Wait For Opportunity To Come To Them. Strong, Able, Alert Men Go After Opportunity.

Enthusiasm Is The Parent Of Enterprise. Search And You Will Find That At The Base And Birth Of Every Great Business Organization Was An Enthusiast, Someone Consumed With Earnestness Of Purpose, With Confidence In Their Powers, With Faith In The Worthwhileness Of Their Endeavors.