Show j THE BIGNESS OF LITTLE THINGS By Roger W. W Babson World Statistician I used to think that success depended on la keeping one eye ye always alwa's open for the thet main chance then stepping out into t the spotlight and pulling pulling- off one big deal Two friends a millionaire and a bricklayer bricklayer brick brick- I i First layer f showed u me where I r was wrong f the ml millionaire got that way without any fireworks There wasn't anything very dramatic about lt his business business busi busi- ness career That sort of ot upset the theory but it I took t the bricklayer e to show me e i Ong hOt g I where e I was wrong r I w was ww w watching watch watch- watching ing him bins work one day He was Vas setting I each brick Just so He said it was Mm- Mm Ime ImI 1 I t because u the whole building tie de- deI I th hb il e o on the setting ti of each little brick t I I got to thinking about it and then I saw It all all aU A A great building ne is made up of ot little tIttle it bricks each brick Is made up of ot ting grains s of sand A mountain u t is built I of pebbles se and the sea I is a a. mass of little drops of or water Furthermore the hard I ness o of ot the mountain the strength of ot a at building and the saltiness of the theT sea an all del depend f on the quality t of C each h little eli al P part Just life Ile tC hd so o a is built I t of d days The h success of ot a year vear is reckoned by adding up the successful days davs and subtract sUbtracting the wasted days dars A ns I successful life Is i but Jut I a sum of ot successful j years ears I 1 |