Bragging Often Precedes Begging.

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

The Man Who Is Too Busy To Read Is Never Likely To Lead.

It Is Well For Civilization That Human Beings Constantly Strive To Gain Greater And Greater Rewards, For It Is This Urge, This Ambition, This Aspiration That Moves Men And Women To Bestir Themselves To Rise To Higher And Higher Achievement. Individual Success Is To Be Won In Most Instances By Studying And Diagnosing The Kind Of Rewards Human Hearts Seek Today And Are Likely To Seek Tomorrow.

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.

...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.