WILL-POWER IN BUSINESS

In every organization there are a number of
very dignified and distinguished clinkers—
very nearly all our national leaders in Great
Britain are clinkers, in fact.
They are large and imposing, and they look
very much like coke, but they will not burn.
They ought to be on the cinder heap rather
than in the furnace.
Human clinkers! There you have the
trouble with our political parties and trade
unions and employers’ federations and churches
and trade associations.
What with an all-powerful Bureaucracy,
which has a very strong Purpose-will—what
with the persistent paternalism of every
Government and our thousands of inactive
organizations and the mass production of
opinion by the daily press, we have very little
self-help left. And without self-help there can,
of course, be no will power at all.
No Government and no organization can
ever solve an ambitious man’s personal prob-
lems. All they can give is the safety and
oblivion of mediocrity. A sheep is safer in a
flock, but it is only a sheep.
A crowd is never creative. If it has a wise
leader, it may become contented and prosper-
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