"THE MAN WHO IS UNBEATABLE 
word. A man who climbs to the top does not 
wander sideways, as the crowd pushes him. 
He keeps on trudging up. 
In a word, the great man is one who has 
determined to be great in some one thing and 
who does not care how hard he works, as long 
as he is moving in the direction that he wants 
to go. 
A great man is always creative, whether he 
creates a book or a science or a railway or a 
factory or a philosophy of life. He is never a 
routine man. 
Often he is an ordinary man, so far as his 
ability and advantages are concerned, but he 
grows big as he keeps on. The greatness of his 
job eventually makes a great man of him. 
Oscar Hammerstein, that erratic genius who 
came to London and built us an Opera House 
on Kingsway, was an unbeatable man. He was 
so erratic that many of his big schemes failed. 
All told, he built a dozen theatres. But no 
failure ever downed him. 
Once, in one of his bankruptcies, he stepped 
out of the theatre he had lost. He was ruined, 
we would say. He stood and looked up and 
down the street. 
A friend said to him : *‘ Don’t give way to 
despair, Oscar.” 
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