The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-01-07

/ Magazine:
Success is the summit we all seek
/ to attain. We can step on no escala-
tor or elevator and be whisked up
! without exertion
! The road is steep, steep as ladder,
and the exertion of brain and muscle
is necessary to climb it step by step,
painstakingly, pluckily. persistentIy.
cheerfulness is one step on the
ladder
Gain it early.
Success in business, if not in life
itself, is simply the art Of pleasing.
The problem of capital is to keep
labor content.
Corporations now refuse to elect
Ecrotchety executives or managers or
superintendent or foremen. for
crotchety overseer makes crotchety,
dissatisfied men.
Promotion today is for the cheer
| full, not the choleric.
To place cantankerous individual
in charge of a business is to pitch a
crowbar into the machinery.
A happy boss oils the whole plant
laughter is a lubricant.
What mean pensions, profit-shar-
ing, sick benefits, compensations for
accidents, group insurance and the
like? Are they not but means to the
one great end, the making Of men sat
isfied?
Dissatisfaction breeds carelessness,
indifference and all manner Of in
efficiency.
Cheerfulness is the parent of com
potency.
The longest face is apt to be award
ed the shortest envelope.
81 would give a million dollars to
have Charlie Schwab's smile.s1 J.
Ogden Armour, head of the S50O,00O,-
0OO-a-year packing business recently
told me
Schwab himself attributes no small
part of his success in building up a
business employing 10000 men to his
inexhaustible sunshine.
If a smile can be. worth million,
why cultivate a frown, for which
there is no market?
The Lackawanna Railroad dismiss
ed superintendent solely because he
could not handle men tremendously.
There is philosophy in the motto
oyerhanging many desk: Smile,
darn you smile
That is the modern version of
Shakespeare's more ornate. "The mer-
ry heart goes all the way, the sad
one tires in a smile"
It is true, also. as declared by Theo-
dore n. Vail, telephone king, that
1.-THE voice with the smile wins.
Smiling will carry you further than
swearing.
Everybody prefers to do business
and to associate with pleasant rath-
er than a peppery person.
Were Commodore Vanderbilt alive
today he would not act on the axiom,
"The Public be Damned but on its
twentieth-century successor, THE
Public be Pleased :
Frank A. vanderlip, head Of Amer
Eica's biggest bank, will engage no
high-salaried man who has not de-
lnonstrated he has the knack Of max
ing many friends.
One malcontent in an organiza-
ton is as a rotten apple in a basket
of fresh fruit.
It has been scientifically proved
that worry. discord and melancholy
undermine health.
Coed spirits make for good diges-
tion.
Cheerfulness costs nothing, yet is
| beyond price.
! It is an asset both of business and
of body.
It helps you to get more land it
enables you to give more--more Of
that which is worth while.
The big men, the leaders Of toTnor-
row, will be those who can blend
cheerfulness with their brains
The wise owner will not enter his
horse if it be in a funlxy mood, for he
knows the race is already lost.
Life's race can be best run with a
light head and buoyant counter
] ance.
1t was the original ]. P. Morgan
who proclaimed that only an optimist
could win in this country.
Optimism and cheerfulness are
i brothers.
The gaining of this rung Of the lad