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Show to destination. The championship prizefight lasts only a matter of minutes. But it Is won or lost in the yean of .training beforehand. It took the allied armies more than four years to develop the strength and momentum for the comparatively short campaign that knocked out Germany. At many times during those long years, and right tip to within a. few months of the German surrender, it looked as if the allied prelimniary work had been largely wasted. But it wasn't wasted." The tables were turned, and success came,' virtually over-, night. Once you get an. army on the run, victory comes fast. So does success, after we get firmly on our feet, . After the seeds sprout in the garden comes a period in which the 'outlook seems almost hopeless except to the, experienced gardener. The fight against weeds and cutworms and In- sects is i neck-and-ncclt contest . And then, almost overnight, the garden wins the fight. Thereafter it requires comparatively little care. The harvest is won or lost in the discouraging period early in the game. Why, then, ever alio al-io ourselves to become discouraged, no matter mat-ter what we are attempting or how great our setbacks? ;, , ; ; Night is blackest Just before the dawn. Aniilhc average career-is. bluest just beiort-w win. Most pf us are nearer success than we realiste. Success may even be right around the corner. Trouble is, the majority of people get discouraged and slow down their efforts t the critical moment when they are on the verge of, "getting across." The leaders of men are the ones who hang on In the crisis wlien the others oth-ers lose heart and let go. . r - . . . Vf ; ; Winning Success IT took Henry Ford twelve years to sell his first million cars. It took him only six ' months to sell his eighth million. Here you have a clear-cut Illustration of a principle that regulates success In nearly every field of endeavor. en-deavor. It Is so universal a principle that it is almost a natural law, ,ThIs is the principle: Getting started Is nine-tenths of the battle for success. Once we are "on our feet" defi-r.ltefy defi-r.ltefy progressing ttiward our goal our progress prog-ress increasingly becomes easier. Every self- made rich man, looking back over his career, knows th! it is more difficult to accumulate the first Jtooo than any 110,000 that folio-. Hence, the expression: "Money ; breeds money." The fastest locomot-'ve has a lot of pre-! pre-! -r.ary work, devoted to mechanical tests, . ! T'ct.'on and getting up steam, during which J the locomotive doesn't travel at all. :: : -i-.Js s:;:i un-I ready to make iis fast rua 4 |