The Recipe for Success

By Burton Bradley—in ‘Forbes Magazine’

It’s doing your job the best you can

And being just to your fellow man;

It’s making money—but holding friends,

And staying true to your aims and ends;

It’s figuring how and learning why,

And looking forward and thinking high,

And dreaming a little and doing much;

It’s keeping always in closest touch

With what is finest in word and deed;

It’s being thorough, yet making speed;

It’s daring blithely the field of chance

While making labor a brave romance;

It’s going onward despite defeat

And fighting staunchly, but keeping sweet;

It’s being clean and it’s playing fair;

It’s laughing lightly at Dame Despair;

It’s looking up at the stars above,

And drinking deeply of life and love;

It’s struggling on with the will to win,

But taking loss with a cheerful grin

It’s sharing sorrow and work and mirth,

And making better this good old earth;

It’s serving, striving through strain and stress,

It’s doing your noblest—that’s Success!