Question of the Day

How is sovereign power achieved?

Answer of the Day

Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

Question of the Day

"Does he work?"

Answer of the Day

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

Question of the Day

How is the validity of dreams achieved?

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They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing.

Question of the Day

What is the difference between giving and having?

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Man's capacities have never been measured.  Nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.

Question of the Day

What is the capacity of human potential?

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Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted.  Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

Question of the Day

What is the value of doing nothing?

Answer of the Day

He who by an exertion of mind or body adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness -- he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a "producer", a "working man", a "laborer", and is honestly earning honest wages.

Question of the Day

What is a "producer"?

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Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life.  Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live

Answer of the Day

The  making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

Question of the Day

How can success be measured?

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Question of the Day

How is immense power acquired?

Answer of the Day

In business the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success.  It is an essential condition of success; because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.  But while loss spells failure, large profits do not connote success.  Success must be sought in business, excellence of performance manifests itself, among other things, in the advancing of methods and processes; in the improvement of products; in more perfect organization, eliminating friction as well as waste, developing their faculties and promoting their happiness; and in the establishment of right relations with customers and with the community.

Question of the Day

How do we achieve a successful profit?

Answer of the Day

Believe in yourself, your neighbors, your work, your ultimate attainment of  more complete happiness.  It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

Question of the Day

How do you actualize?

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We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.

Question of the Day

Why should we deal justly?

Answer of the Day

Our greatest opportunities for advancing productivity and improving living standards are to be found in the field of human relationships.  Having achieved a better understanding of each other and their common responsibility to do all in their power to educate the American public to understanding of the simple economic facts that underlie our industrial and business relationships.

Question of the Day

What is the value of establishing a relationship when doing business?

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