The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

New Year, the season for changes in positions and advances in salaries, approaches. If you have in your employ some who deserve more salary, do not compel them to go through the unpleasant ordeal of asking a raise, but, rather, voluntarily increase their remuneration. A raise that comes from the boss without asking is worth a lot more than one that has to be gouged out of him. Is it not true that a great many employers who would not dream of overcharging their customers have no qualms whatever about underpaying their employees if the latter will submit without protest?

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

Use life to provide something that outlasts it.

Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.