"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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