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If The United States Is To Produce A Nation Of Investors-as We Must If We Are To Gain Financial World-leadership-it Is Imperative That Boards Of Directors Be So Constituted As To Adequately Represent The Interests And Inspire The Complete Confidence Of Investors Of Moderate Substance.

For My Part, I Rather Distrust Men Or Concerns That Rise Up With The Speed Of Rockets. Sudden Rises Are Sometimes Followed By Equally Sudden Falls. I Have Most Faith In The Individual Or Enterprise That Advances Step By Step. A Mushroom Can Spring Up In A Day; An Oak Takes 50 Years Or More To Reach Maturity. Mushrooms Don't Last; Oaks Do. The Real Cause For An Enormous Number Of Business Failures Is Premature Over-expansion, Attempting To Gallop Before Learning To Creep. Sudden Successes Often Invite Sudden Reverses.

He Best Keeps From Anger Who Remembers That God Is Always Looking Upon Him.

Enthusiasm Is The Parent Of Enterprise. Search And You Will Find That At The Base And Birth Of Every Great Business Organization Was An Enthusiast, Someone Consumed With Earnestness Of Purpose, With Confidence In Their Powers, With Faith In The Worthwhileness Of Their Endeavors.

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.