Acting Without Thinking Is Like Shooting Without

The British Have Their Own Conception Of What Constitutes The Typical American. He Must Have A Flavor Of The Wild West About Him. He Must Do Spectacular Things. He Must Not Be Punctilious About Dignity, Decorum And Other Refinements Characteristic Of The Real British Gentleman. The Yankee Pictured By The Briton Must Be A Bustler. If He Is Occasionally Flagrantly Indiscreet In Speech And Action, Then He Is So Much More Surely Stamped The Genuine Article. The Most Typical American The British Ever Set Their Eyes On Was, In Their Judgment, Theodore Roosevelt.

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.

I Resolve For 1920 To Sit Down All By Myself And Take A Personal Stock-taking Once A Month. To Be No More Charitable In Viewing My Own Faults Than I Am An Viewing The Faults Of Others. To Face The Facts Candidly And Courageously. To Address Myself Carefully, Prayerfully, To Remedying Defects.

New Year, The Season For Changes In Positions And Advances In Salaries, Approaches. If You Have In Your Employ Some Who Deserve More Salary, Do Not Compel Them To Go Through The Unpleasant Ordeal Of Asking A Raise, But, Rather, Voluntarily Increase Their Remuneration. A Raise That Comes From The Boss Without Asking Is Worth A Lot More Than One That Has To Be Gouged Out Of Him. Is It Not True That A Great Many Employers Who Would Not Dream Of Overcharging Their Customers Have No Qualms Whatever About Underpaying Their Employees If The Latter Will Submit Without Protest?

Many Of The Most Successful Men I Have Known Have Never Grown Up. They Have Retained Bubbling-over Boyishness. They Have Relished Wit, They Have Indulged In Humor. They Have Not Allowed ‘dignity’ To Depress Them Into Moroseness. Youthfulness Of Spirit Is The Twin Brother Of Optimism, And Optimism Is The Stuff Of Which American Business Success Is Fashioned. Resist Growing Up!