Everybody ahead Author:Orison Swett Marden Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: UNTIL A BETTER MAN COMES ALONG All the world cries: "We want a man." Don't look so far for this man. You have him right at hand—it is you, it is I, it is eac... more »h one of us.— Dumas. Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. Lowell. " T" HAVE two hundred millions in my coffers, I but I would give them all for Marshal Ney!" exclaimed Napoleon in a great emergency. The Corsican conqueror wanted a man—and this has been the great cry, since the world began, "Give us a man." The scarcest thing in the world is a real man. The hardest thing to find is a fully developed human being, a man who has delved down into himself and brought out and cultivated his highest possibilities, a man with concentrated energy, a man who has a definite purpose and knows how to fling his life out to it with all the weight of his being. Such a man is needed in every calling. This century calls loudly for men who know how to transmute their knowledge into power. We are living in a very practical age; theories and theorists are not in demand. The cry is ever fora. man who can deliver the goods, a man possessing practical ability and executive force. "How long do you think I will be able to keep my place?" an anxious employee asked his employer. "Until a better man comes along," was the prompt reply. "I make it a rule to better the personnel of my employees whenever a better man or woman appears. This is the way I keep up the high standard of my establishment. I am always weeding out the culls, displacing good with better, better with best. This is my rule." This may sound very cold-blooded. But it is business, and there is no sentiment in business. Everyone in this man's model establishment knows that he can only hold his job until his better comes along, and this...« less