A Shady Business Never Yields

Frank W. Woolworth Once Told Me That The Turning-point In His Career Did Not Come Until He Was Thrown Flat On His Back By Illness. He Was Sure That His Business Would Go To Pieces During His Long, Enforced Absence. Instead, He Discovered That He Had In His Employ Men Who Could Overcome Difficulties When Given Power To Exercise Initiative. After That Woolworth Left Many Problems And Difficulties To Be Solved By Subordinates And Turned His Attention To Big Things.

How You Start Is Important, Very Important, But In The End It Is How You Finish That Counts. It Is Easier To Be A Self-starter Than A Self-finisher. The Victor In The Race Is Not The One Who Dashes Off Swiftest But The One Who Leads At The Finish. In The Race For Success, Speed Is Less Important Than Stamina. The Sticker Outlasts The Sprinter In Life's Race. In America We Breed Many Hares But Not So Many Tortoises.

...the Incontestable Truth Is That America Has Been Built Up By Optimists, Not By Pessimists, But By Men Possessing Courage, Confidence In The Nation's Destiny, By Men Willing To Adventure, To Shoulder Risks Terrifying To The Timid.

Upon Our Children-how They Are Taught-rests The Fate-or Fortune-of Tomorrow's World.

The Man Who Works 52 Weeks In The Year Does Not Do His Best In Any One Week Of The Year, Daniel Guggenheim, Onetime Head Of The Greatest Smelting And Mining Family In America, Impressed Upon Me. Real Recreation Quickens Aspiration. The True Purpose Of Recreation Is Not Merely To Amuse, Not Merely To Afford Pleasure, Not Merely To Kill Time, But To Increase Our Fitness, Enhance Our Usefulness, Spur Achievement.