THE MAN WHO IS UNBEATABLE

uses all the brains it pays for. What is lacking,
usually, is courage and stamina.

Courage—to attempt something new !
Stamina! To keep on in spite of failures
and difficulties !

Every firm has more knowledge and ability
than it uses. It has plenty of reserves, if it
will only call them up. There are young men
in every firm who would do great things if they
were called upon.
What most firms need is Courage and
Stamina. And both come from the man at the
top. If the head of the firm is an unbeatable
man, he can make his employees as invincible
as Cromwell’s Ironsides.
This rare gift of courage is usually inborn.
Out of ten boys in a school playground,
probably only one or two possess it. Those
324 V.C’s were probably distinguished as
boys for their quick courage and their presence
of mind. The act that won the Victoria Cross
was, very likely, the climax of a long series of
daring acts.

But to a large extent courage can be
developed. George Kennan, one of the bravest
of men, who discovered and made known the
horrors of the Siberian prison colonies, was
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