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Many years ago, I bought a book written by Doctor Murray Banks, entitled, “How to Live With Yourself.” I started rereading it and was amused and delighted at the good sense he makes. I particularly like his definition of the quest for happiness. He wrote, “Life itself is very much like climbing a slippery glass…

William Lyons Phelps made a comment that we should have print and put someplace where we can regularly be reminded of it. He said: “Great ideas come when the world needs them. They surround the world’s ignorance and press for admission.” We tend to forget that great truth: “Great ideas come when the world needs…

Some time back, I read an interesting little story written by a man who spent forty years learning a rather interesting thing. This individual was not what you could call the busy, bustling type of individual. In fact, he acknowledged the fact that he was chronically lazy. He loves comfort and leisure with a passion…

Prentice-Hall published a book in 1960, entitled PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS, by Maxwell Maltz, M.D. It was later condensed and appeared in the book section of Reader’s Digest April 1961 issue. The author, Doctor Maltz, who is a plastic surgeon, points out in this excellent book that people have a built-in success mechanism, a mechanism that will automatically…

I’m going to ask a question, and let’s see how close you can come to the right answer. Ready? O.K. — Let’s suppose you’re the head of a large company employing, say, a couple of thousand people. What percentage of those people do you suppose are interested enough in getting ahead that they would give…

People are often curious as to how certain individuals seem to achieve so much during their lives. These people who accomplish the success of an unusual nature are often given credit for being different, strange, geniuses, lucky, or they are believed to have some magic formula. Heading But the fact is that one thing, more…