3704<\/b> Better Cup Of Coffee<\/b><\/p>\n
Chicago, June 18 (AP)\u2014John R. Thompson\u2019s belief that he could make a better cup of coffee than one served him here in World\u2019s Fair days started him in the restaurant business that netted him millions as he added to his \u201cone-arm\u201d string, it was recalled today by friends of the late capitalist. <\/p>\n
Mr. Thompson died at the Highlands, his Lake Forest estate, after an illness of six years. <\/p>\n
Thompson was 28 years old when he came to Chicago from downstate with his bride to visit the Columbian expositon in 1893. After they had seen the fair, the pair wandered into a restaurant on South State street. It wasn\u2019t a pretentious place they selected, nor was the meal particularly delectable, but the coffee was bad, very bad. <\/p>\n
\u201cI can make a better cup of coffee than that myself,\u201d said Thompson, according to the story he used to relate. <\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe you want to try it,\u201d the proprietor rejoined. <\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe I do, and I will,\u201d said Thompson. <\/p>\n
\u201cBuy the place and you can,\u201d came the next reply. <\/p>\n
Before the young visitor went out he had agreed to purchase it all, lock, stock and barrel and even the mortgage. In that decision was begun a business which last year provided 53,000,000 meals to the patrons in American cities. <\/p>\n
3705<\/b> Running For Dinner Or For Life<\/b><\/p>\n
Your success in life depends on your motive. There is an old fable about a dog that boasted of his ability as a runner. One day he chased a rabbit and failed to catch it. The other dogs ridiculed him on account of his previous boasting. His reply was, \u201cYou must remember that the rabbit was running for his life, while I was only running for my dinner.\u201d The incentive is all-important. <\/p>\n
\u2014King\u2019s Business<\/i><\/p>\n
3706<\/b> Running For Touchdown Or For Life<\/b><\/p>\n
Boddy Dodd, Georgia Tech\u2019s athletic director, tells of the coach who, with his team leading 7 to 6 in the last minute of play, carefully instructed his quarterback not to pass under any condition. But when the ball was carried within the opponent\u2019s ten-yard line, the quarterback was overcome by temptation. He passed and the ball was intercepted by the rival\u2019s fleetest back, who broke into an open field and raced toward pay dirt. He was speeding past midfield when suddenly, out of nowhere, the quarterback who had passed overtook him and brought him down. <\/p>\n
After the game, the losing coach remarked to his barely victorious counterpart, \u201cI\u2019ll never understand how your boy overtook my fastest back.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I\u2019ll tell you,\u201d came the reply. \u201cYour back was running for touchdown\u2014my boy was running for his life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Wall Street Journal<\/i><\/p>\n
3707<\/b> The \u201cDesert Fox\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
As a boy, Marshall Rommel, later known as \u201cthe Desert Fox,\u201d was the laziest and most indolent student in his class. His teachers said he would never amount to anything. One schoolteacher said, \u201cIf Rommel ever shows up with a dictation without mistake we\u2019ll hire a band and go off for a day in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
At this the boy promptly sat up and soon turned in a dictation without one single error, showing that he could do it if there was sufficient inducement to spur him to the effort. But when the promised award was not forthcoming he promptly fell back into his old, indolent ways. But later on, fired by ambition to rise above the ranks, he became a bundle of driving energy and one of the ablest military men in the world. <\/p>\n
\u2014Evangelistic Illustration<\/i><\/p>\n
3708<\/b> An Invalid Walks<\/b><\/p>\n
For nine years, as the doctors thought, Mrs. Julia B. Adams had been a hopeless invalid. For six years she had lain in bed, as helpless as an infant, but Monday she walked proudly into Jefferson Market police court and gave evidence that will help to convict the two men who were the unconscious instruments of her restoration. <\/p>\n
The excitement of hearing noises in the night, of the house being aroused, of the discovery that house-breakers had removed $800 worth of silver, worked on her feelings so powerfully that she amazed her family by getting out of bed and walking about the house like one of themselves. <\/p>\n
\u2014New York Dispatch<\/i><\/p>\n
3709<\/b> Washington\u2019s Fort Nonsense<\/b><\/p>\n
George Washington was a master of the art of motivation. In 1777 his soldiers faced a cold, bleak winter of inactivity on a mountain near Morristown, New Jersey. Washington noticed signs of restlessness and grumbling. Grim-faced, he told the engineering officers that a fort must be built quickly. He had the sentry guard increased. <\/p>\n
Work on the fortifications started on the double. The soldiers snapped out of their lassitude and began guessing when the attack might occur. When spring thaws came, the fort was not quite finished, but the general ordered a move. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut will we move before the fort is finished?\u201d the chief of engineers asked. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt has served its purpose,\u201d Washington replied with a twinkle. \u201cThe fort was just nonsense, to keep the men busy at something they thought important.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was known as Fort Nonsense\u2014though it symbolized the good sense that one leader used to maintain the morale of his people. <\/p>\n
\u2014Dorothy Parker<\/p>\n
3710<\/b> Wanamaker Was Happily Busy<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you keep?\u201d asked an old friend, who came to congratulate John Wanamaker upon the sixtieth anniversary of Oak Hall. \u201cHappily busy,\u201d was the answer. <\/p>\n
Sixty years of uninterrupted work in one business is no small achievement, whatever may be the degree of success attained. But Wanamaker had started his own business at the age of twenty-three, had developed it into an establishment known throughout the world, and at the age of eighty-three, he was still its head, making ambitious plans for the future. <\/p>\n
How had he done it? That is what the old friend wanted to know. \u201cIt is all in the two words with which I answered your first question,\u201d said Wanamaker. \u201cMany people are busy because they have to; I\u2019m busy because I want to be. So I am happily busy.\u201d<\/p>\n
3711<\/b> Difference Between Work and Play<\/b><\/p>\n
Have you ever thought of the difference between work and play? You use the same muscles to play golf as you do to mow your lawn; you use the same brain power to play bridge as you do to conduct a business; the only difference is the mental attitude. Why is it that work tires you more than play? Again it is the mental attitude, so if you want to make your work easier, make play out of it. <\/p>\n
Too many men make work out of golf, and when you do that you have taken the pleasure out of it. It may not be easy, but if you can change the mental attitude toward the things you call work, you can get more out of life. Mark Twain said, \u201cWork is not a concrete thing; it is a mental attitude. Nothing is either work or play but thinking makes it so.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Genius at Work<\/i><\/p>\n
3712<\/b> Listening To Opponent\u2019s Pep Talk<\/b><\/p>\n
In 1924, when Notre Dame went to Princeton, Knute Rockne had such a sore throat that he could not deliver his pre-game oration. In the adjoining room, the Irish could hear Roper exhorting Princeton to fight valiantly and well. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s the best pep talker in the world,\u201d Rockne told his men, nodding to the next room. \u201cListen to him and win with his fight talk.\u201d They did. <\/p>\n
\u2014Maxwell Droke<\/p>\n
3713<\/b> Cleaning Picnic Grounds<\/b><\/p>\n
Colley Reserve, a park in Glenelg, Australia, was left looking pretty as a picture after a mammoth kiddies\u2019 picnic. At day\u2019s end, organizers broadcast the news that hidden among all the litter were two marked pieces of rubbish which could be traded in for new bicycles. Never has a picnic ground been cleaned as quickly. <\/p>\n
\u2014The News<\/i><\/p>\n
3714<\/b> Clapping For Overtime<\/b><\/p>\n
At the conclusion of a concert two ushers were applauding harder than anybody else. People seated nearby smiled appreciatively at the two music lovers until one of them stopped applauding and the other one was heard to say, \u201cKeep clapping, you dope. One more encore and we\u2019re on overtime.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Bill Sears<\/p>\n
3715<\/b> Exactly What He Wanted To Do<\/b><\/p>\n
Carl Hubbs, 81, professor of biology emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, drew a prolonged ovation when he accepted a 1975 Headliner Award from the San Diego Press Club. \u201cI really don\u2019t know why I\u2019m receiving this,\u201d he said apologetically. \u201cAll I\u2019ve ever done in life was exactly what I wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014San Diego Tribune<\/i><\/p>\n
3716<\/b> Epigram On Motivation<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 A leader cannot invent motivation, he can only unlock it. When there exists no motivation within a people, no strong leadership is possible. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Do only what is required of you and remain a slave. Do more than is required and become free. <\/p>\n
\u2022 It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness. <\/p>\n
\u2014James Barrie<\/p>\n
\u2022 Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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