Judgment Can Be Acquired Only By Acute

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.

No Man Can Fight His Way To The Top And Stay At The Top Without Exercising The Fullest Measure Of Grit, Courage, Determination, Resolution. Every Man Who Gets Anywhere Does So Because He Has First Firmly Resolved To Progress In The World And Then Has Enough Stick-to-it-tiveness To Transform His Resolution Into Reality. Without Resolution, No Man Can Win Any Worthwhile Place Among His Fellow Men.

How You Start Is Important, But It Is How You Finish That Counts. In The Race For Success, Speed Is Less Important Than Stamina. The Sticker Outlasts The Sprinter.

The Bell Of Public Opinion Is Today Making The Morgan-rockefeller-vanderbilt Class Jump. Nor Are The Strongest Of Our Corporations Immune. The Railroads Have Had To Jump Pretty Lively, And Certain Gigantic Industrial Combinations Are Also Being Put Through Their Paces.

Many A Man Has Walked Up To The Opportunity For Which He Has Long Been Preparing Himself, Looked It Full In The Face, And Then Begun To Get Cold Feet... When It Comes To Betting On Yourself And Your Power To Do The Thing You Know You Must Do Or Write Yourself Down A Failure, You're A Chicken-livered Coward If You Hesitate.