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| Orison Swett Marden
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. A will finds a way. All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation. No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price. The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. The golden rule for every business man is this: "Put yourself in your customer's place." The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it. What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. |
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