Success Consists Of Being And

The Real Friend Is He Or She Who Can Share All Our Sorrow And Double Our Joys.

Here's A Pointer Culled From The Careers Of Men Who Have Attained Notable Success: Don't Sit In Your Office During The Hours Prospects Can Be Seen. Do Your Office Work Before Or After The Hours During Which Possible Customers Can Be Reached. This May Mean Adding An Hour Or Two Quite Often To Your Day's Work; But In Times Like This Particularly, The Securing Of A Satisfactory Amount Of Business Through The Expenditure Of An Extra Hour Or Two A Day Is Not An Unreasonable Price To Pay.

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.

America, In The Eyes Of The World, Typifies Above All Else This Quality Of Initiative. The Greatest Successes Are Nearly All The Fruit Of Initiative. Why Do We Hold In Such High Esteem The Achievements Of The Wright Brothers? Because They Were Illustrious Examples Of Initiative And Tenacity. And Ideas Are Born Of Initiative, The Children Of Men And Women Of Initiative. Advancement Is Applied Initiative. Don't Imitate. Initiate.

Is America Becoming Decadent? Do We No Longer Regard Our Promises And Pledges As Sacred? ... We Promised To Make Peace With Germany Only In Conjunction With The Allies; But We Brought Forward A Separate Peace, Demanding For Ourselves All The Advantages Of The Treaty Of Versailles But Rejecting All The Responsibilities Embodied In The Treaty. It Was America's President Who Induced Europe To Form A League Of Nations; And Then America Was The First Country That Refused To Joint It.... If These Are Not The Symptoms Of National Decadency, What Are They?