This book is a hidden treasure, just discovered...
The is much wisdom in this book - if you are a mentor to anyone - or if you yourself need a bit of inspiration to overcome challenges in your work, or life - this book is a great goodness for the heart, mind, spirit, and soul.
An Iron Will by Abner Bayley and Orison Swett Marden (1901)
This passage especially resonated with me...
Benjamin Franklin had this tenacity of purpose in a wonderful degree. When he started in the printing business in Philadelphia, he carried his material through the streets on a wheelbarrow. He hired one room for his office, work-room, and sleeping-room. He found a formidable rival in the city and invited him to his room. Pointing to a piece of bread from which he had just eaten his dinner, he said:"Unless you can live cheaper than I can, you cannot starve me out."
As did this passage:
When James Gordon Bennett was forty years old he collected all his property, three hundred dollars, and in a cellar with a board upon two barrels for a desk, himself his own typesetter, office boy, publisher, newsboy, clerk, editor, proofreader, and printer's devil, he started the "New York Herald." He did this, after many attempts and defeats in trying to follow the routine, instead of doing his own way. Never was any man's early career a better illustration of Wendell Phillips' dictum: "What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better."
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