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Show 10- 1 Author of "How to Win Friend and Influence People.' " SUCCESS Here are eight suggestions for achieveing success, condensed from Walter B. Pitkin's book, "The Secret of Achievement." 1. Mr. Pitkin considers the most important factor of all to be a powerful urge to accomplish something notable ! If you have that, he says, you are well on the way to success. 2. The second most important qualification, is persistence! per-sistence! Thomas A. Edison said, "Nearly every man who develops an idea Avorks it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then becomes discouraged. dis-couraged. That's the place to become interested; Hard work and forever sticking to a thing until it's done are the main things an inventor needs." For that matter, it's about the main thing anyone needs. 3. Say, "I can accomplish big things if I try." Think positive thoughts, have confidence in yourself or how can you expect anyone else to have confidence in you? Charles F. Kettering, inventor, said: "I have found that if I have faith in myself and in the idea I am tinkering tink-ering with, I usually win out." 4. Develop a hunger and thirst for self-improvement. Success comes to the man who is not content with himself and his methods; to the man who is constantly willing to examine and try to improve himself. him-self. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., of General Motors, told me that no executive could get very far in our modern modern competitive world who was not willing to accept ac-cept ideas from even the humblest workers in his organization. org-anization. He said that many of his best ideas had come from men in overalls.. They were the ones doing the actual work and could see opportunities for improvement. im-provement. 5. Expend unusual energy in your work. Good, but that is not enough to raise you above the crowd. i Most men work eight hours a day, five days a week. Supreme Court Judge Charles Evans Hughes is 77, but he works sixteen hours a day. While he was in college he carried especially heavy work, but he managed to read 105 volumes in addition to his regular-reading for classroom assignments. I 6. You must be' fired and inspired with a driving enthusiasm. Charles M. Schwab, the famous steel man, said: "A man will succeed in almost anything he undertakes if he has unflagging enthusiasm for it." Owen D. Young, of the General Electric Company, once chose a man his associates did not approve. They asked him why he picked the man. He replied, "I think we could get a -more capable man than he is, but he has enthusiasm. That makes up for what he lacks." 7. You must have intellectual curiosity. 8. You must have creative imagination the ability to think things out ! To evolve an idea and stick to it till -it is a perfected reality. There you have the eight fundamentals of success by Walter B. Pitkin. Why not study them ? Why not do something about them? |