Introduction To Keys To Success What It's About
Nobody can hand you a ready-made key to open the door of success. You must fashion your own key and find the combination of the lock for yourself.
No magician can waft you to the heights of fortune and fame. You cannot fly there on the wings of an aeroplane.
The road, often rocky, has to be traversed on foot. You, and you alone, can supply the motive power. You, and you alone, must put forth the necessary exertion. No one can remove from your shoulders the burden of the effort. You must do your own climbing.
Nor are there any mystic short-cuts. The full distance must be honestly, even painstakingly traveled.
Then why such a book as this?
What help can it afford?
It can afford either much help or no help: all depends upon the spirit in which it is read and used.
No person sincerely anxious to attain success — - and willing to pay the necessary price — can fail to be stimulated, aided, enlightened, and encouraged by perusing it, for it contains, not solely old-as-the-hills platitudes and generalities, but the greatest wealth of specific, concrete pointers from our most successful
Introduction To Keys To Success
present-day men of affairs that has ever been gathered between two covers. It contains not only the cream of the wisdom accumulated by these brainy, mature, practical men, but hundreds of illustrations of how they applied their wisdom when put to the test. It abounds in actual incidents and anecdotes from the careers of men who have reached the summits toward which we all are pressing, or, at least, to which we all aspire: in too many cases there is a super-abundance of aspiration but a dearth of perspiration and pressing.
] I do not feel that I have written the book. Its authors, rather, are a hundred or more of our bestknown captains of industry, statesmen, writers, and a few sages of former days. Much of the material comes direct from business men who have become recognized as the foremost authorities in their line. They have given of their best in the hope of helping others to rise.
While there are no escalators to the hilltop of success, and while every man and woman must do his and her own climbing, yet there is a right road to it — and many wrong roads which never lead the traveler to the desired goal.
The aims of the book are :
First — To guide the reader into the right paths.
Second — To warn him of difficulties he^will encounter, show him how others overcame similar or greater difficulties, and hearten him to wrestle with and triumph over them.
Third — To inculcate correct ideas on what constitutes worthwhile success, so that the ambitious youth may be able, before it is too late, to differentiate between the true and the false, the tinsel and
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