Success Is Sweetest To One Who Has

Frank W. Woolworth Once Told Me That The Turning-point In His Career Did Not Come Until He Was Thrown Flat On His Back By Illness. He Was Sure That His Business Would Go To Pieces During His Long, Enforced Absence. Instead, He Discovered That He Had In His Employ Men Who Could Overcome Difficulties When Given Power To Exercise Initiative. After That Woolworth Left Many Problems And Difficulties To Be Solved By Subordinates And Turned His Attention To Big Things.

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.

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.

Bragging Often Precedes Begging.

When You Delve Deep Enough, You Find That Practically Every Great Fortune And Great Enterprise In America Have Sprung From The Courageous Enterprise Of Some Individual. It Was Commodore Vanderbilt's Enterprise In Switching First From Running A Ferryboat To Running Other Ships, And Then, When He Was Well Along In Years, His Enterprise In Switching Into Railroading, That Created What Was To Become One Of The Most Notable Fortunes In The History Of The World.