2020-06 The Successful Ones

From “Samscripts” June 1955

Someone has made a survey of a thousand successful men to learn how they got their start in life.
Three hundred started as farmers’ sons.
Two hundred sold or carried newspapers.
Two hundred started as messenger boys.
One hundred began as printers’ apprentices.
One hundred started working in factories.
Fifty began at the bottom of railroad work.
Fifty, only fifty out of a thousand, had well-to-do parents to give them a start.

It is well to remember that an indolent person did not discover the telephone. And an indolent person did not learn to control steam. And an indolent person did not discover the power of gasoline, nor learn how to harness the great Niagara Falls.

The men who have accomplished most in the world were persons who had ambition and a goal, and worked long and hard to attain it.