The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.

Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.

I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.