Somehow, up to the time it came I had not felt equal to my chance; for
I knew that my opportunity would be a large one when it came, and I
knew that it would come. It did come."
Business men said for the first two or three years, "What a change of
luck Mr. ---- has had! But he is not equal to it. He has never
accomplished anything heretofore."
Yes, but he had been getting ready. He had been saving vitality,
building up character, indexing and pigeonholing experiences,
accumulating and systematizing a long-continued series of observations
and all the potentialities of intellect and personality out of which,
when applied to proper conditions, success alone is forged.
And so he gathered to himself great riches, and the poor man of a few
years ago is now--of course, of course, and alas! if you like--a
member of one of the most powerful trusts in the country.
Get yourself into the current of Circumstance--"in the swim," as the
colloquialism has it. A man of large experience and important
achievement said to me not long ago: "I am afraid I am getting to be a
back number." That was a distinct note of degeneration. If he thought
so that thought was the best evidence of the fact.
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