Will-power in business

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Identifikator:: 1838104151

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

Document type:: Monograph

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 I. What is will-power?

Collection:: Economics Books

WHAT IS WILL-POWER? crowd. We allow others to make our political opinions for us. We allow others to entertain us. We have mass-ideas. We follow the line of least resistance. And all this means that our will-power has become weak and instead of steering our own course through the sea of life we are drifting wherever the winds of the day may happen to blow us. It is clear that we must take some measure of self-protection against this pressure of the crowd. No man ever yet, outside of politics, made a success of his own career by drifting. Entertainment and motor car driving and cinemas and the news of the day are all well enough, but they must be kept in their place. They must not take all of a man’s leisure, if he is ambitious and wishes to accomplish any- thing worth while. Every ambitious man should have at least one hour a day to himself. What for? To strengthen his Purpose-will. To separate himself from the crowd that is pushing him about. To think of his own affairs. To study the subject that he has chosen. To be active, not passive. To be as far as it is possible for him to be—creative. Success in the business world comes onl to those men who are in some way exceptional, 19

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