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Author of How To Win Friends and Influence People.When the ‘‘Lusitania” was torpedoed and sunk back in 1915, there faent down with it a man who had written an article that had been copied forty million times. I referto Elbert Hubbard and his! “Message to Gar- ! cia.” This article has been translated into every written language. Business houses have handed it out as inspiration for their employes; employes have respondedwith amazing unde rstanding.Every soldier in the Russo-Japanese War, Russian and Japanese alike, had a translation given him before he left for the front. |I wish I had the space to reprint it here, but I will have to be satisfied with giving you merely a few paragraphs from this famous article : |“I know one man of really bril-liant parts who has not the ability j to manage a business of his own, and yet who is absolutely worth-* less to anyone else, because he carries with him constantly the insane suspicion that his employer is oppressing, or intending to oppress him. He cannot give orders; and he will not receive them. Should a message be given him to take to j Garcia, his answer would probably ! be ‘Take it yourself!’ Tonight this man walks the streets looking for work, the wind whistling through his threadbare coat. No one who I knows him dares employ him, for he is a regular firebrand of discontent. He is impervious to reason ....“I wish to speak a word of sympathy for the man who succeeds—
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Amarillo Daily News
Amarillo, Texas, US
Mon, Feb 21, 1938
Page 18
Full Page
Clipped by
Frederick C.
MD, USA 29 Oct 2020
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