Mediocre Men Wait For Opportunity

The Person Who Renders Loyal Service In A Humble Capacity Will Be Chosen For Higher Responsibilities, Just As The Biblical Servant Who Multiplied The One Pound Given Him By His Master Was Made Ruler Over Ten Cities.

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.

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

Do Too Many Executives Still Indulge In The Short-sighted Habit Of Issuing Orders Without Taking The Slightest Pains To Explain To Those Responsible For Carrying Them Out The Whyfor And Wherefor Of The Orders? Where Employees Come In Daily And Hourly Contact With The Public, Surely It Is Important That Care Be Taken To Fit Them To Reply Intelligently To Courteous Questions. ""because Them Are Orders"" Isn't A Satisfying Reply-even Less Satisfactory To The Management Than To The Public.

It Can Be Set Down As A Broad, General Principle That We Cannot Indulge In Idleness And Abundance During Both The First And Second Half Of Our Life. Study, Application, Industry, Enthusiasm While We Are Young Usually Enable Us To Enjoy Life When We Grow Older. But Unless We Toil And Strive And Earn All We Can In The First Half, The Second Half Of Our Life Is Liable To Bring Disappointment, Discomfort, Distress. The Time To Put Forth Effort Is When We Are Most Able To Do It, Namely, In The Years Of Our Greatest Strength. The Law Of Compensation Hasn't Ceased To Function.