Will-power in business

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Identifikator:: 1838104151

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-227150

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Author:: Casson, Herbert Newton http://d-nb.info/gnd/118814435

Title:: Will-power in business

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Efficiency Magazine

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: 142 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter II. The man who is unbeatable

Collection:: Economics Books

WILL-POWER IN BUSINESS ‘‘ Despair, nothing,” roared Hammerstein. “I'm looking for the best site for my next theatre.” And before long he built another theatre and restored his fortunes. He was unbeatable. As far as I can learn, the secret of Foch consisted mainly in two qualities—his studious- ness and his aggressive courage. To think and to act! Few men combine these two. A thoughtful man is apt to be sluggish and a courageous man is apt to be rash. But Foch was both student and fighter—that is the secret of his success. When he was a professor in a war college he used to tell his pupils : ‘““ Think, and yet again, think. You will be asked some day to be the brain of an army, so I tell you to learn to think.” Then, when his army was being attacked by a superior force of Germans, he sent this famous message to Joffre : ““ 1 cannot hold on, so I shall attack.” In the minor matters of generalship there were other generals who were superior to Foch. But he was the right man for a desperate situation. He was at his best when the danger was the greatest. He was unbeatable. 2

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