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VOL.
REVIEW
LIII. N o . 24. Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, Dec. 16,1911
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Some Business Thoughts
SOMETIMES think that football according to the accepted rules is a mighty savage game. The con-
testants do not mind broken bones or heads—the bones will knit and the heads will heal and time
will take care of the sprains; and, so long as the spirit of the boys is not fractured and their determi-
nation is not splintered, they do not mind being just a little disfigured.
As a rule the boys who have the grit to stand up in a game where all of the savage instincts in them
are aroused, will succeed later on when it comes to the great rush for business.
They will have the stuff in them that will never know defeat, for their spirit is typical of the successful
•man who refuses to be tied down or handicapped.
The business experiences of life which come on later may need just the kind of physical and moral
courage which is always in evidence in blood stirring, blood letting football games.
Errors of judgment and over zeal may repeatedly hurl men to earth; but they do not lie there wasting
time and wailing over the disfigurements which are a part of their experience.
They take count of their assets and figure out how they can get back in the game.
We need plenty of good red blood in business and plenty of good brain and brawn as well.
Even then a man may not succeed for that is one of the great mysteries of life which is never quite
clear to most of us, and that is why persistent and seemingly intelligent effort is not always rewarded.
If we look about us we can see many capable, honest, ambitious men working hard but still failyig to
accomplish their purpose; and yet we see other men who apparently possess less intellectual and business
ability climbing straight over them, giving them knockout blows every time.
It is one of the questions which is not easy of solution.
There are several causes for failure—one may be the quality of workmanship or the results of imper-
fection.in the plan.
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There are cases in which many faults may be found; but it seems as if work which is correct, backed
by good skill, should not be easily side-tracked from winning success.
• Rut there are things which are never known to the superficial observer; and perhaps oftentimes failure
may be due to lack of confidence on the part of men who wear apparently a smiling visage to the world.
They may be entertaining a great deal of fear in their own heart; and fear of failure if held to persist-
ently will open the way for failure quicker than anything else.
Lack of confidence develops a product that bears all signs of poor workmanship.
Worry and anxiety make success impossible; and success is something that must exist in the mind be-
fore it can be realized as an actuality.
There must be definite plans and a purposeless life is rarely ever a successful one; for to succeed a man
must know.'exactly what it is that he desires to accomplish, for otherwise he will have no goal and all his
energies will be aimlessly expended.
Industry misdirected can accomplish but little and there must be purpose behind every move and cour-
age as well, for the man with courage can break new ground for himself when necessarv and opposition
puts a keener edge upon his appetite.
Every unfair dig.that j.ie receives acts as an onward spur to the acoomplishmeni of bigger tilings.
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