Success Is Sweetest To One

A Magazine Editor Recently Asked Me To Sit Down On My 40th Birthday And Write An Article On The Most Important Things I Had Learned In My First 40 Years. I Told Him That The Chief Thing I Had Learned Was That The Copybook Maxims Are True, But That Too Many People Forget This Once They Go Out Into The Heat And Hustle And Bustle Of The Battle Of Life And Only Realize Their Truth Once One Foot Is Beginning To Slip Into The Grave. The Man Who Has Won Millions At The Cost Of His Conscience Is A Failure.

Money, Or Even Power, Can Never Yield Happiness Unless It Be Accompanied By The Goodwill Of Others.

Employers, Have You Ever Stopped To Reckon What The Goodwill Of Your Workers Is Worth? ... In Most Large Concerns It Would Be Worth More In Dollars And Cents To Have The Goodwill Of The Working Force Than Of Those On The Outside. It Has Been Repeatedly Demonstrated That The Average Working Force Is Capable Of Increasing Its Production 25% Or More Whenever The Workers Fell So Inclined. Workers Animated By Ill Will Cannot Possibly Give Results Equal To Those Of Workers Animated By Goodwill. The Tragic Fact Appears To Be That A Tremendous Number Of Working Forces Are Not So Animated.

Many Concerns Now Make Part Or The Whole Of Their Dividends From By-products That Formerly Went To Waste. How Do We, As Individuals, Utilize Our Principal By-product? Our Principal By-product Is, Of Course, Our Leisure Time. Many Years Of Observation Forces The Conclusion That A Man's Success Or Failure In Life Is Determined As Much By How He Acts During His Leisure As By How He Acts During His Work Hours. Tell Me How A Young Man Spends His Evenings And I Will Tell You How He Is Likely To Spend The Latter Part Of His Life.

Judgment Can Be Acquired Only By Acute Observation, By Actual Experience In The School Of Life, By Ceaseless Alertness To Learn From Others, By Study Of The Activities Of Men Who Have Made Notable Marks, By Striving To Analyze The Everyday Play Of Causes And Effects, By Constant Study Of Human Nature.