Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

And it might be well to assume and state openly that other people have the virtue you want them to develop. Give them a fine reputation to live up to, and they will make prodigious efforts rather than see you disillusioned.

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, said: Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry. Yes, from dissipation of their energies—and worry because they never seem to get their work done.

Adler's statement is so rich with meaning that I am going to repeat it in italics: It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

If out of reading this book you get just one thing—an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people's point of view, and see things from their angle—if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career. Looking.