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Show BE ENTERPRISING . Enterprise is first cousin to energy. Enterprise-Is also closely related to courage, ambition, kpowledge, foresight, fore-sight, ability. Enterprise's arch enemy Is laziness. Lack of enterprise Is often due to cowardice, timidity, short-sightedness, false pride (lost failure entail loss of prestige and isocial position), Igno-. Igno-. ranee, thrlftlessness, spinelessness. Enterprise En-terprise can be displayed In humble as well ashlgh positions. The office boy can be as enterprising In his sphere as the president In his. Every employer Is on the lookout for enterprising employees, for em-, em-, ployees who come with suggestions not always for them, for employees who have enough enterprise and Initiative Initi-ative to do things without being told, for employees possessing enough enterprise en-terprise to meet emergencies. It Is not enough to be enterprising and nothing else. To be able to exercise enterprise of the right kind, one must acquire other qualifications. But there are many people who possess pos-sess these other qualifications who never travel far because they shrink from Incurring the risk, the effort and the Initiative which enterprise calls for. " , . First be enterprising enough to cultivate cul-tivate other needful qualifications and abilities. Then be enterprising. Forbes Magazine Mag-azine (N. Y.) |