Steel is prince or pauper.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.
Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.
Men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold; but one doesn’t go into the mine looking for dirt – one goes in looking for the gold.
If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their minds dwell upon, and this applies to a group or community or a nation of people, the same as to an individual.
Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow. Franklin capturing the lightning, Morse annihilating space with the telegraph, Bell transmitting speech through the air by the telephone, are not less mysterious – being more ethereal, perhaps in one sense they are even more so – still, the labor of the world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine in a class apart by itself.
It is now thirteen years since I ceased to accumulate wealth and began to distribute it. I could never have succeeded in either had I stopped with having enough to retire upon, but nothing to retire to.
This is where the children of honest poverty have the most precious of all advantages over those of wealth. The mother, nurse, cook, governess, teacher, saint, all in one; the father, exemplar, guide, counselor, and friend! Thus were my brother and I brought up. What has the child of millionaire or nobleman that counts compared to such a heritage?
Among the conditions of life or the laws of Nature, some of which seem to us faulty, some apparently unjust and merciless, there are many that amaze us by their beauty and sweetness. Love of home, regardless of its character or location, certainly is one of these.
I believe that higher wages to men who respect their employers and are happy and contented are a good investment, yielding, indeed, big dividends. The.
That best portion of a good man’s life – His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
Boulton sold the estate which had come to him by his wife, and the greater part of his father’s property, and mortgaged the remainder. It is evident that the great captain had taken in hand far too many enterprises. Probably he had not heard the new doctrine: “Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
East or West Home is best.
Let there be light.” This.
Certainly the man who makes his own wealth eclipses those who inherit rank from others.” I.
I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of the fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality.
An iron railroad would be a cheaper thing than a road of the common construction.” Here lay in a few words the idea from which our railway system has sprung.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
If we truly care for others we need not be anxious about their feelings for us. Like draws to like.