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rubber band—you can stretch it to fit almost anything, but it draws
in to a small scope when you let go.
The Constructive Imagination
“Make it your business to know what is the best that might be in
your line of work, and stretch your mind to conceive it, and then
devise some way to attain it.
Little Tasks and Big Tasks
“Big things are only little things put together. I was greatly
impressed with this fact one morning as I stood watching the
workmen erecting the steel framework for a tall office building. A
shrill whistle rang out as a signal, a man over at the engine pulled a
lever, a chain from the derrick was lowered, and the whistle rang out
again. A man stooped down and fastened the chain around the centre
of a steel beam, stepped back and blew the whistle once more. Again
the lever was moved at the engine, and the steel beam soared into the
air up to the sixteenth story, where it was made fast by little bolts.
“The entire structure, great as it was, towering far above all the
neighbouring buildings, was made up of pieces of steel and stone
and wood, put together according to a plan. The plan was first
imagined, then pencilled, then carefully drawn, and then followed by
the workmen. It was all a combination of little things.
Working Up a Department
“It is encouraging to think of this when you are confronted by a big
task. Remember that it is only a group of little tasks, any of which
you can easily do. It is ignorance of this fact that makes some men
afraid to try.”
Suppose, now, that instead of making a radical change in your
business situation, you are simply seeking to improve some
particular department of your business.
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