Work Is The Meat Of Life, Pleasure

The British Have Their Own Conception Of What Constitutes The Typical American. He Must Have A Flavor Of The Wild West About Him. He Must Do Spectacular Things. He Must Not Be Punctilious About Dignity, Decorum And Other Refinements Characteristic Of The Real British Gentleman. The Yankee Pictured By The Briton Must Be A Bustler. If He Is Occasionally Flagrantly Indiscreet In Speech And Action, Then He Is So Much More Surely Stamped The Genuine Article. The Most Typical American The British Ever Set Their Eyes On Was, In Their Judgment, Theodore Roosevelt.

Honesty Is The Cornerstone Of Character.

A Shady Business Never Yields A Sunny Life.

I Have Known Not A Few Men Who, After Reaching The Summits Of Business Success, Found Themselves Miserable On Attaining Retirement Age. They Were So Exclusively Engrossed In Their Day-to-day Affairs That They Had No Time For Friend-making.... They May Flatter Themselves That Their Unrelaxing Concentration On Business Constitutes Patriotism Of The Highest Order. They May Tell Themselves That The Existing Emergency Will Pass, And That They Can Then Adopt Different, More Sociable, More Friendly Habits. [but] Such A Day Is Little Likely To Come For Such Individuals.

Accuse American Businessmen Of Being Responsible For Radicalism And They Would Indignantly Deny The Accusation. Yet, In One Fundamental Sense, They Are Responsible. They Are Responsible In The Sense That They Have Utterly Neglected To Take Part In The Work And The Organization Which Precede The Choosing Of Candidates For Political Office. Local Political Organizations All Over The Land Are Conducted And Controlled, As A Rule, By Politicians.... Businessmen Have Shirked Such Responsibilities, Leaving An Untrammeled Field To Others Less Capable Of Carrying On The Administration Of Government.