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The Most Famous Self-made Man In The World Today Is Our Own Edison. Talk With Mr. Edison And He Will Tell You He Owes Much If Not Most Of His Success To Omnivorous Reading. Forbes Is One Of His Favorite Publications. How Closely He Reads It Can Be Gathered From A Letter Just Received From Him In Which He Asks The Editor To Forward A Long Analytical Letter To The Writer Of A Series Of Articles Which Contained Two Figures Mr. Edison Questions, And He Wants To Know Exactly On What Authority Or Investigation They Were Based. Both Letters Were The Product Of Mr. Edison And Were Signed By Him.

How You Start Is Important, Very Important, But In The End It Is How You Finish That Counts. It Is Easier To Be A Self-starter Than A Self-finisher. The Victor In The Race Is Not The One Who Dashes Off Swiftest But The One Who Leads At The Finish. In The Race For Success, Speed Is Less Important Than Stamina. The Sticker Outlasts The Sprinter In Life's Race. In America We Breed Many Hares But Not So Many Tortoises.

The Christmas Spirit Brings Home To Us-or Should Bring Home To Us-the Profound Biblical Truth That It Is More Blessed To Give Than To Receive. Anything Which Inspires Unselfishness Makes For Our Ennoblement. Christmas Does That. I Am All For Christmas.

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.

It Is Well For Civilization That Human Beings Constantly Strive To Gain Greater And Greater Rewards, For It Is This Urge, This Ambition, This Aspiration That Moves Men And Women To Bestir Themselves To Rise To Higher And Higher Achievement. Individual Success Is To Be Won In Most Instances By Studying And Diagnosing The Kind Of Rewards Human Hearts Seek Today And Are Likely To Seek Tomorrow.