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George M. Verity on "Success and Character"

Date Published: June 19, 2020
​Date Modified: January 9, 2024
Discovering Great American Industrialists: Image of George M. Verity sitting at his desk with George M. Verity's perspective on the four stakeholders in a corporation.
Success is the greatest test of character. Some can stand very little success, others a great deal, but the history of the lives and accomplishments of men give much evidence to prove that almost every man has a limit to the degree of success that he can attain without losing control of one or more of the factors or powers that have made him successful.
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The world needs men who can stand success and who, when they have found it, will use it in the interest of mankind.
George M. Verity on Success and Character
[All heading and subheadings have been added by Peter E. Greulich to this article by George M. Verity. Some passages have been deleted for clarity or shortened for brevity. Care has been taken to maintain the author's original thought in these modifications.]
​George M. Verity on Success and Character
  • Success and Character
  • What Is Success and What Are its Essential Building Blocks
  • Character is the Governor of the Engine Called Success​
 Success and Character
Character and success are so thoroughly interwoven, so essential to each other, that where you find one you are likely to find the other. There is, however, one great difference between them, and that is, that one may possess high character without having been fully successful …
But there can be no real success without character. ​​
It has been said that all able-bodied persons are divided into two classes—the workers and the loafers. A loafer is one who lacks both moral and physical fiber, who has no sense of responsibility and consequently has no ambition. Success is to him unknown.

​Every right-minded worker has the ambition to succeed.
Image of the Book of Business V Volume set of books.
This article is from Volume II
 What Is Success and What Are its Essential Building Blocks​
George Verity at his desk.
George M. Verity at his desk
Success is a word or term which is much misunderstood and subject to many interpretations. What is real success, and what are the elements or influences that make for its accomplishment?
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Success is too often interpreted to mean solely the ability to acquire property or wealth. One may succeed in acquiring great wealth, but that does not prove that he is a success, for in spite of wealth acquired through his own efforts, his own sagacity, application, and foresight, a man may spend his later days in disgrace.
No man can hope to be rated as a success unless he has made good in all the relations of life that have come to him, and in the responsibilities of citizenship. This is a task that will keep a man busy every day of his life.

The duties and responsibilities of citizenship are today so complex, so varied, and so numerous, and the demands of modern business are so exacting that a young man just starting must take up the work of life thoroughly prepared, fortified, posted, and trained, if he is to hope to be rated as a success when his work is done.
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- Work Is a Joyful Necessity
The necessity for work was a wise provision in the plan of human life, and not a misfortune, as some try to believe, for it is through use of our faculties—physical and mental—that development takes place. The condition and characteristics of the loafer are the best proof of what happens to the human structure when it is simply allowed to float like a jellyfish.
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Work to the men of the world is a real joy. It is our outlet for pent-up ambition and desire; it is the great leveler, the great safety valve for human weakness. A noted writer says :
American Rolling Mill Company (ARMCO) employees showing up for work.
Armco employees showing up for work
​"Work is not man’s punishment, it is his reward and his strength, his glory, and his pleasure."
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However, work—hard, persistent, conscientious work—will not, of itself, bring success without intelligent and well-directed effort. To be effective and efficient, a man must have the motive power of ambition and determination, and the perfect working parts of a sound mind and body.

- Diplomacy, Honesty, Courage and Patience

He must understand the art of diplomacy, and he must have the desire and the ability to be considerate of others when deserved. He must have the forcefulness and effectiveness, and the balance that comes with knowledge and training and the control of character. If one starts out in life with the determination to succeed in the fullest sense of the term, he must first of all be honest—honest with himself, honest with his employers and his associates, honest with his employees, honest in thought, word, and deed.

He must be courageous, ever ready to do not only the part assigned him, but to take advantage of every opportunity to serve his employers and his associates whether it is in the line of his regular duties or not. He must constantly add to the sum of his knowledge and experience in order that he may increase his power and efficiency.

Young men should understand the importance of making good in each period from boyhood on—at school, at college, or in whatever situation they find themselves. They should start out with the determination to make good in their first position … and be satisfied to let the next position take care of itself. It is a great handicap to be yearning for tomorrow’s work, or for next month’s, or next year’s work, to the detriment of the work of today.

Each place well filled is a rung in the ladder that must be climbed. Serving an apprenticeship faithfully and successfully is building a sub-foundation soundly. An ability to perform, to do things, is not only the best asset, but it is the only one that the ups and downs of the world cannot take away. It is that which gives real standing among men.

Other qualifications that make for success are hopefulness, optimism, loyalty, enthusiasm, fearlessness, sobriety, perseverance, and consistency.

- Hopefulness, Loyalty, Enthusiasm, Perseverance and Consistency
Hopefulness is the thing that enables men to brace up under the weight of temporary disappointments or failure, and to try again and again. It is a spur to continued effort. Determined persistency, energetic effort, and hopeful optimism all spring from the important faculty of hopefulness—it is the mainspring of accomplishment, and every man, as influenced by his training and environment and according to his capacity intellectually and physically, has one or more things in life he especially hopes to accomplish. Hopefulness begets a happy demeanor; it makes the world more beautiful and more cheerful; it makes life the more worth living. Hopefulness and work lead along the straight highway to success.
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As to loyalty, there is something in the very sound of the word that rings true like a precious metal.  One of the greatest elements of success is loyalty to your friends, to your associates, and to the business with which you may be connected, loyalty to your principles, to your faith, and to your citizenship.
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Undertakings or accomplishments, great or small, are seldom brought to a successful conclusion without great enthusiasm. It is sort of a wellspring of activity, a full-charged battery that keeps the nerves tingling. However, mere enthusiasm unsupported by consistent, hard, effective work is like a beautiful bubble and is of absolutely no value. Fearlessness to do the right as one sees it, can be as great a protection to the businessman of today as was the coat of mail to the knight—errant of yesterday. Both a lion and a coward will flinch before genuine courage. …

Perseverance is indispensable to success—that real bulldog determination, undismayed by obstacles or handicaps of any and every kind, by time or tide—is a necessary companion to that sort of work that wins. The race is not to the swift, neither is it to the strong, nor to the man who has the power of knowledge. It is rather to the consistent, persistent, determined man, who, fortified day by day with increased knowledge and experience, never gives up until he has reached his goal. No man who is at the top of the ladder ever reached it with one bound. He has worked and worked hard, has taken step by step carefully, sanely, and with confidence in his endurance.

Perseverance is described by a noted writer as energy and invincible determination: “The longer I live, the more certain I am that the great difference between men, the great and the insignificant, is energy, invincible determination—an honest purpose once fixed, and then victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in the world, and no circumstance, no opportunity, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.”

Inconsistency can spoil almost every other qualification; it undermines stability of character and reputation, and it gets you nowhere. If one would have the respect and confidence of his employer or his employee, of his customers or his friends, he must be consistent. He can neither act nor argue one way today, and another tomorrow, if either his word, his speech, or his influence is to be of value to him.

​To be consistent is absolutely essential to the employee, and doubly so to the employer.

- Delayed Gratification: Time and Experience Are Synonymous
All of these qualities, added to time and experience, will help keep one on the road to ultimate success, but do not forget that experience and time are synonymous, and that experience – the intelligent application of that ripened experience that has been obtained through performing and re-performing and proving that one can perform, is what brings the largest financial reward.

You must also learn that you will never be paid for what you are going to do as you go along, and that you will be only partially compensated for what you have done, as ability to perform must be bought at one price and sold at another, just as is every other talent, work of art, or commodity.
Picture of George Verity speaking to employees at a company baseball game.
​George Verity speaking to employees at baseball game
- Every Individual Has Success within Them

Every normal man has it within him to be a real force in the activities of the world if he will but use the God-given powers which he has. We must remember that failure exists only in the grave, that while there is life there is still a chance. That discouragement or inability to reach a fixed goal at any given time is not failure, it is simply experience, without which we can have no mature judgment, and that mature judgment is essential to success.
 Character is the Governor of the Engine Called Success
Picture of George M. Verity from May, 1926 Factory: The Magazine of Management (public domain).
​- Character Is Our Life’s Rudder, Our Individuality

Let us first consider some definitions of character as given by various authorities.
  • Webster says: Character: The individuality which is the product of nature, habits, and environment. The combination of qualities distinguishing any person or class of persons. Character means the estimate attached to the individual by the community.
  • The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia: Character, acquired character, a change of structure or of function that is brought about in an organism during its individual life as contrasted with one that comes to it from its parents.
These definitions make it clear that character is more a matter of our own building than it is of inheritance, because in a large majority of cases we have it in our power to choose our associations and to choose or create such environments as appeal to us. It is certain that our associations and our environment from childhood on, whether chosen or forced upon us, do have more to do with the development of character than any other factor or influence.

One may have all of these qualifications and in fact, every known physical and mental endowment fully developed; one may have a thorough education and training, one may have the great power of knowledge intelligently applied; one may have all of these, but without character, a “human unit” is like unto a great ship with a broken rudder or with no rudder at all.
- Success without Character Tends to Destruction

Character is the great balance wheel, the great leveling, controlling influence in life; it is to a man as is the governor to a great “Corliss” engine. Of what value would the engine be without its governor? With every part in place and in perfect working order, its power of accomplishment would, without the controlling influence of the governor, be turned into an instrument of destruction—it would be a menace to life and property the minute steam was allowed to enter its cylinders.

Character is to humanity as are the throttle and the air brake to a great locomotive. The air brake, the governor, and the throttle all make tremendous speed possible, because they provide control for an almost unlimited power, which, uncontrolled, would destroy human life and destroy property. Every power which man has acquired or with which he is endowed makes him a menace to other lives, and an instrument of destruction without the great controlling influence of character.
- Character Determines the Quality of One’s Individuality.

Individuality is the sum of those qualities and characteristics in a man or woman, of initiative, force, and ability that are peculiar to each of them.  A passive, lazy, “dough and putty” man has little individuality. Character is the quality of one’s individuality.

It is the controlling mechanism that makes one master of his powers—God-given or acquired.  Character is the sum of those qualities that are distinct from purely intellectual qualities. If you would succeed in the broadest sense of the term, you must acquire that thorough control of your mind, of your body, and of all your powers and faculties that only the possession of high character can give.

There is no lack of opportunity; on the contrary there is a scarcity of men who can do things, or who can fully make good in the various divisions of commerce, finance, and industry. I doubt if there is a business of any proportion in the country, that, at some time in the course of the year does not have a place to be tilled for which they have no one available fully equal to the need—a place where salary would not count if they could only get the right man. …

It is the constant problem of big business to find men fully equal to positions of responsibility, men who have education and training, who are masters of a particular business, or of some branch of it, and who have the many qualifications that the complex business of the times demands.
- Character Brings Recognition and Responsibility

When a young man has acquired a reputation for good character, for energy, for application, for courage, for initiative, and for the ability to do things, such a reputation cannot be hidden under a bushel, it is bound to spread. It will be known to his associates, to his friends, to his employers, and that young man will never lack for profitable employment.

Responsibility gravitates to those who are able to carry it. The carrying of responsibility commands its own reward. Business, politics, the professions, the arts, and sciences all need men who can do things, men who can make good.
- Character Is the Governor of Success

Last but not least, character, strong sturdy character, is needed to control success. The human mind, the human body, the human unit as a whole has shown itself to be strong—as is proven by the wonderful accomplishments of the ages.  But in some of the strongest of the strong, of the seemingly invincible, success has proved to be the vulnerable spot-like the heel of Achilles.

Success is the greatest test of character. Some can stand very little success, others a great deal, but the history of the lives and accomplishments of men give much evidence to prove that almost every man has a limit to the degree of success that he can attain without losing control of one or more of the factors or powers that have made him successful.
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The world needs men who can stand success and who, when they have found it, will use it in the interest of mankind.
​George M. Verity on "Success and Character"
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      • The World's Greatest Salesman >
        • Preface
        • Introduction
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    • A View from Beneath >
      • Preface
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        • Two R.A. Days Hit Home
        • R.A. Day Kills Productivity
      • Business Talk Interview
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    • Essays on Leadership >
      • Democracy in Business
      • We Are All Assistants >
        • Frank Venner: We Are All Assistants
      • We Forgive Thoughtful Mistakes
    • Bibliography Overview >
      • Authors and Writers >
        • Garland, Hamlin
        • Wise, John S. >
          • Slave Auction
          • Tribute to Robert E. Lee
          • On Lincoln's Assassination
      • Capitalists >
        • Baruch, Bernard M. >
          • My Own Story
          • The Public Years >
            • A Review
            • Second Thoughts
        • Davison, Henry P.
        • Schiff, Jacob H.
      • Educators >
        • Washington, Booker T >
          • Up From Slavery
          • My Life and Work
          • Character Building
          • My Larger Education
          • The Man Farthest Down >
            • Booker T. Washington and John Burns
          • Future of American Negro >
            • Future of the Negro
      • IBM >
        • IBM Books >
          • IBM Classics
          • IBM Executives' Books
          • IBM Employees' Books
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        • IBM Publications >
          • THINK Magazine
          • Business Machines
          • IBM Heart and Soul >
            • Endicott Memorial Day
            • Poughkeepsie Memorial Day
          • IBM Art Books
        • IBM Situational
      • Industrialists >
        • Anthologies >
          • The Book of Business
          • New Ideals in Business
          • Master Workers' Library
          • The Age of Big Business
          • Famous Leaders Series Home Page >
            • Leaders of Character
            • Leaders of Industry: 1st Series
            • Leaders of Industry: 2nd Series
            • Leaders of Industry: 3rd Series
            • Leaders of Industry: 6th Series
          • Forbes' Anthologies
        • Armour, J. Ogden >
          • The Packers
          • The Packers: Second Look
        • Baldwin, William H.
        • Beatty, Edward
        • Bell, Alexander Graham
        • Carnegie, Andrew >
          • Carnegie Quotes
          • Carnegie Autobiography
          • Carnegie Biography by B. J. Hendrick
          • Round the World
          • The Empire of Business
          • An American Four-in-Hand
        • Eastman, George
        • Edison, Thomas A. >
          • Edison: His Life and Inventions
          • Edison: My Friend
        • Farquhar, A. B.
        • Filene, Edward A. >
          • The Way Out >
            • Captains of Industry vs. Captains of Finance
          • Successful Living >
            • Rules of Success
        • Firestone, Harvey S. >
          • Men and Rubber
          • Making an Organization
        • Flint, Charles R.
        • Ford, Henry >
          • Books by Henry Ford
          • The Last Billionaire
          • My Forty Years with Ford
        • Gary, Elbert H.
        • Guggenheim, William
        • Hill, James J.
        • Hollerith, Herman
        • Johnson, George F.
        • Patterson, John H.
        • Penney, James C. >
          • Fifty Years With the Golden Rule
        • Procter, William C.
        • Rockefeller Jr.
        • Rockefeller Sr.
        • Rosenwald, Julius
        • Sloan Jr., Alfred P.
        • Swope, Gerard >
          • Swope of G.E.
          • The Swope Plan
          • Selected Addresses
        • Verity, George M. >
          • True Steel
          • Character & Success
        • Wanamaker, John >
          • A Business Biography
          • Retail Firsts
        • Watson Jr., Thomas J. >
          • A Business and Its Beliefs
          • Management Briefings
          • Father, Son & Company
        • Watson Sr., Thomas J. >
          • Human Relations
          • Men-Minutes-Money
          • The Lengthening Shadow
        • Young, Owen D. >
          • Selected Addresses
          • New Industrial Leader
      • Inventors & Innovators >
        • Fulton, Robert
        • Goodyear, Charles
      • Journalists >
        • Baker, Ray Stannard >
          • Autobiography
          • The Color Line
          • Woodrow Wilson
        • Crowther, Samuel >
          • Articles >
            • Bantam Ball Bearing
          • Biographies
          • Industrialist Anthology
          • "Why Men Strike" Review
        • Gunther, John >
          • Eisenhower
        • Steffens, Lincoln
        • Sullivan, Mark >
          • Our Times
          • The Education of an American
        • Tarbell, Ida M. >
          • Overview
          • Lincoln Centennial
          • Lincoln Publications
          • Corporate Publications
          • Fiction Publications
          • Other Publications >
            • Mme. (Madame) Roland
          • Magazine Articles >
            • Disbanding the Confederate Army
            • Disbanding the Union Army
        • White, William Allen >
          • Woodrow Wilson, The Man
      • Military Leaders >
        • Lee, General Robert E.
      • Pioneers / Explorers >
        • Byrd, Richard E. >
          • Alone
          • Discovery
          • Little America
        • Columbus, Christopher
        • Lindbergh, Charles
      • Politicians >
        • Eisenhower, Dwight D.
        • Hoover, Herbert >
          • American Individualism Book >
            • American Individualism Article
          • Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson
          • Problems of Lasting Peace
        • Lincoln, Abraham >
          • Lincoln in the Telegraph Office
          • Abraham Lincoln Books By Ida M. Tarbell
        • Mesta, Perle
        • O'Connor, Basil and FDR >
          • Friends and Partners (Against Polio)
        • Roosevelt, Theodore >
          • Roosevelt: A Story of Friendship
        • Roper, Daniel C. >
          • Fifty Years of Public Life
        • Taft, William H.
        • Wilson, Woodrow >
          • The New Freedom
          • The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson
          • Wilson's Last Words
          • Wilson's Tasks and Life
          • Wilson's Life and Letters >
            • Volume IV: President
            • Volume V: Neutrality
            • Volume VI: Facing War
      • Preachers >
        • Fosdick, Harry Emerson >
          • The Meaning of Prayer
          • The Meaning of Faith
          • The Meaning of Service
          • Power to See It Through
      • Publishers >
        • Forbes, B. C. >
          • Men Who Are Making America
          • Men Who Are Making the West
          • Automotive Giants of America
          • Little Bits about Big Men
          • America's 50 Foremost Business Leaders
          • America's Twelve Master Salesmen
          • Scrapbook of Thoughts on Business of Life
          • 101 Unusual Experiences
          • Keys to Success
          • Teamwork
        • Fortune Magazine >
          • USA: The Permanent Revolution
        • Shaw, A. W. >
          • Handling Men >
            • Why We Are Hiring Women
            • The Dream Behind the Business
          • The Companion Series
    • Research Sites
    • Acknowledgements
  • 21st Century IBM
    • Corporate Performance >
      • Comparing KPIs
      • Brand Performance >
        • Forbes' Best Employer
      • Patent Performance >
        • 2021 Patent Performance
        • 2020 Patent Performance
        • 2019 Patent Performance
        • 2018 Patent Performance
      • Revenue Performance
    • Corporate Practices >
      • Acquisitions >
        • Acquisition: Red Hat >
          • A $35 Billion Gamble
          • IBM + Red Hat 2019 Results
        • Acquisitions: Goodwill
        • Acquisitions: Since 2001
      • Centralization >
        • A Lost Federation
        • The Need to Decentralize
      • Divestitures >
        • Kyndryl Analysis
        • Kyndryl Top Questions
        • Martin Schroeter
      • Employees >
        • Resource Actions
        • Age Discrimination >
          • Cutting Old Heads
        • Employee Engagement
        • Aren't Buying Into IBM
        • Massive Work Slowdown
        • Failure of Work at Home
      • Financial Engineering >
        • Workforce Rebalancing
        • Aggressive Bookkeeping
      • Shareholders >
        • Share Buybacks
        • Shareholder Risk
        • Overall Performance >
          • Revenue & Profit
          • Revenue & Profit Growth
          • Revenue & Profit Productivity
          • IBM Market Value
          • Shareholder Returns & Risk
          • Employment Security
        • Employee Engagement
        • Warren Buffett's Mistake
        • Do Share Buybacks Work?
    • CEO Performance >
      • Arvind Krishna Overview >
        • First Year Performance >
          • Revenue & Profit
          • Revenue & Profit Growth
          • Revenue & Profit Productivity
          • IBM Market Value
          • Shareholder Returns & Risk
          • Share Buybacks
        • The First 100 Days
      • Ginni Rometty Overview >
        • Shareholder Value
        • Shareholder Risk
        • Share Buybacks
        • Dividend Strategy
        • Acquisition Strategy
        • Revenue & Profit Productivity
        • Revenue & Profit Growth
        • Revenue & Profit
  • 20th Century IBM
    • Corporate Performance >
      • IBM's Greatest CEO >
        • Shareholder Returns
        • Revenue Growth
        • Revenue Per Employee
        • Profit Growth
        • Profit Per Employee
        • Market Value
        • Goodwill
        • Economic Contractions
        • Economic Expansions
        • Stock Market Headwinds
        • CEO Historic Footnotes >
          • IBM's Founding Team
          • Financial Engineering
          • The Greatest Gamble
    • Corporate Practices >
      • IBM Anniversaries
      • IBM Benefits
      • IBM Creativity >
        • IBM Cartoons
        • IBM Song Books
        • IBM UK Dictionary
        • IBM Computing Dictionary
      • IBM Wild Ducks >
        • The Wild Goose
        • Royal Dissenters
        • Corporate Constitution
        • Respect for the Individual
        • Service to the Customer
        • Pursuit of Excellence
    • Corporate Products >
      • 1890: U.S. Census
      • Dayton Scales in 1920
      • 1940: The Electromatic
    • Thomas J. Watson Sr. >
      • Quotes By Watson
      • Quotes About Watson
      • Articles By Watson >
        • On World Peace
        • On the Cost of War
        • On Public Education
        • On Thomas Jefferson
        • On Thoughtful Mistakes
        • On Stakeholder Relations
      • Articles About Watson >
        • A Gift of Retirement
        • A Gift of Home Ownership >
          • Construction Timeline
        • The $1,000-A-Day Chief Executive Officer
        • Employees are Valued
        • Democracy's Man o' War
        • Human Relations in 1956
        • A CEO Who Earned His Pay
        • The Story of "THINK" >
          • Two Journalists "THINK"
          • A Buddy Davis Interview
        • Learning from Crises
        • Tom Watson's Wild Ducks
        • The Lengthening Shadow
      • Slice of Life Stories >
        • Dali, Salvador
        • Drucker, Peter F. >
          • Authority and Power
          • Short-Term Thinking
          • A Corporate Culture
          • Raising Business Issues
          • Focus on Principles
          • Character and Manners
          • Knowledge Workers
          • Recognizing Ability
          • Individual Respect
          • Employee Paternalism
        • Eastman, George
        • Penney, J. C. (James Cash) >
          • Watson Homestead
          • Golden Rule Businesses
        • A 1943 Tax Problem
        • Fighting Discrimination
        • A Pajama Party
      • Pre-World War II >
        • Women in the Workplace
        • A Lost Dream of Peace
        • USO Camp Show Founder
      • World War II Effort >
        • Selling War Bonds
        • Production Awards
        • Controlling Profits
        • Machine Records Units
        • Wartime Contributions
        • Widows & Orphans Fund
        • Declaring Human Rights
        • Supporting Home Morale
        • Employee Military Service
        • War's End & Reconversion
      • Post-World War II >
        • Endicott Memorial
        • Poughkeepsie Memorial
        • Rehiring WWII Veterans
  • Articles
    • Corporate Articles >
      • High-Performance Corporations
      • The Art of the Restart
      • Crises, Recoveries & Lessons Learned
      • Strategy Should Create Human Relationships
      • A Time-Tested Corporate Constitution
      • IBM, JC Penney and The Golden Rule
      • How IBM Created its 20th Century Brand
      • The Greatest Business Risk of the 20th Century
      • How to Grow a Business
      • The Importance of Sales Productivity
      • How Much Is a Great CEO Worth
      • Let Your Guard Down
    • Business Articles >
      • Business Witticism
      • The Golden Rule and Productivity in Business
      • Who and What Built Early American Capitalism
      • Capitalism Needs Industrialist Minded CEOs
      • Producing Corporate True Steel
      • CEO Perspectives >
        • Rules of Success
        • Top Employee Qualities
        • Industrialist vs. Capitalist
      • An Open Letter to the World's CEOs
      • Henry Ford Takes Control
      • The Razor Blade Business Model
      • Two Successful 20th Century Businesswomen
      • Sears: A Dead Franchise Walking
      • A LinkedIn Incognito Mode
      • Value a College Education
    • Political Articles >
      • Political Witticisms
      • Meritocracy and Teachable Humility
      • What Is Patriotism?
      • Presidents' Day 2024-25
      • Memorial Day 2025
      • Pursuing The "American Way"
      • America: Home of the Brave
      • Securing the Borders of the Americas
      • General Grant's Stand for Justice
      • America's Heartland Stands Strong
      • The New Freedom
      • Teddy Roosevelt on Socialism & Individualism
      • Women as Citizens
      • Mary Slessor of Calabar
    • Spiritual Articles >
      • Inauguration Day Prayer
      • Reincarnated Thoughts >
        • Why Lies Should Never Be Glorified
        • Are You More Than A Wise Entrepreneur?
        • A World of Peace or Turbulence?
      • Wilson's Last Words
      • Spiritual Songs
    • Fiction Articles >
      • A Father's Love
      • Introducing a Friend to God
      • Hyphenated Relationships
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