Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1909 — ABILITY TO STICK. [ARTICLE]

ABILITY TO STICK.

Purpose in a man, without the ability to stick, is not worth the powder to blow it up. The clerk who aspires to become office manager and satisfies himself with the position of assistant bookkeeper, and the salesman who calls on a few people, secure no orders, and goes out to the ball game, are men who have purpose but no preseverance. They are soon listed among the thousands of “those who meant well.” The man who takes it into his head to do a thing, and does it, who first plans his work and then works his plan, is the man who makes good. He takes the get there stroke and sticks to it.