It Is When Things Go

I Have Known Not A Few Men Who, After Reaching The Summits Of Business Success, Found Themselves Miserable On Attaining Retirement Age. They Were So Exclusively Engrossed In Their Day-to-day Affairs That They Had No Time For Friend-making.... They May Flatter Themselves That Their Unrelaxing Concentration On Business Constitutes Patriotism Of The Highest Order. They May Tell Themselves That The Existing Emergency Will Pass, And That They Can Then Adopt Different, More Sociable, More Friendly Habits. [but] Such A Day Is Little Likely To Come For Such Individuals.

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.

Don't Forget Until Too Late That The Business Of Life Is Not Business But Living.

Turn Resolutely To Work, To Recreation, Or In Any Case To Physical Exercise Till You Are So Tired You Can't Help Going To Sleep, And When You Wake Up You Won't Want To Worry.

The Majority Of America's Colossal Fortunes Have Been Made By Entering Industries In Their Early Stages And Developing Leadership In Them.... Think Of What Opportunities The Present And The Future Contain In Such Fields As Ship-building And Ship-owning, Aircraft, Electrical Development, The Oil Industry, Different Branches Of The Automotive Industry, Foreign Trade, International Banking, Invention, The Chemical Industry, Moving Pictures, Color Photography, And, One Night Add, Labor Leadership.