If A Pig Could Pray, It Would

Turn Resolutely To Work, To Recreation, Or In Any Case To Physical Exercise Till You Are So Tired You Can't Help Going To Sleep, And When You Wake Up You Won't Want To Worry.

Finally, There Is More Genuine Joy In Climbing The Hill Of Success, Even Though Sweat May Be Spent And Toes May Be Stubbed, Than In Aimlessly Sliding Down The Path To Failure. If A Straight, Honorable Path Has Been Chosen, The Gaining Of The Summit Yields Lasting Satisfaction. The Morass Of Failure, If Through Laziness, Indifference Or Other Avoidable Fault, Yields Nothing But Ignominy And Sorrow For Self And Family And Friends.

A Young Financial Writer Once Brought Ridicule Upon Himself By Stating That A Certain Company Had Nothing To Commend It Except Excellent Earnings. Well, There Are Companies Whose Earnings Are Excellent But Whose Stocks I Would Never Recommend. In Selecting Investments, I Attach Prime Importance To The Men Behind Them. I'd Rather Buy Brains And Character Than Earnings. Earnings Can Be Good One Year And Poor The Next. But If You Put Your Money Into Securities Run By Men Combining Conspicuous Brains And Unimpeachable Character, The Likelihood Is That The Financial Results Will Prove Satisfactory.

Temporary Release From Work, Through Vacations, Becomes More Welcome, More Pleasurable, Even More Necessary, As We Grow Older.

Whenever Calamity Howlers Shake Their Heads And Impress Upon You That This, That, And The Next Dire Catastrophe Is To Befall This Nation Or The Nations Of The World-such As, For Example, That Exhaustion Of The World's Oil Supply Will Bring All Transportation And Machinery To A Standstill Through Lack Of Lubrication, Or That Exhaustion Of The Earth's Stores Of Coal Will Make Life Unlivable In These Cold Climates-just Smile And Reply That The Worst Troubles Of All Are Those That Never Happen [and] That You Prefer Not To Cross Shaky Bridges Until You Come To Them.