I once did not believe that we all have ability. I thought that there were but a few who had real ability, and that the rest of us belonged to the mob. I venture to say that it will be almost impossible to pick out a single person in any large establishment who does not have the ability along some line that could make him outstanding if it were developed.
 
I am writing this little article for the ambitious man or woman - not for the man who is too lazy to develop what is in him, but for the man who is unsatisfied with anything but the best.
 
As I study men and women, I am convinced of this:

There is room and a salary waiting for the man who has ability and is willing to put hard work into it.  Choose your work, rather than have the work in which you have no interest thrust upon you.  Find out what you can do, what you like best to do.  I don't care who you are.  I don't care what your handicaps are.  They have never made a handicap that could hold any man down who had in him the yeast to rise.
 
Most of the people who are at the bottom are at the bottom because they want to stay there.  That is where they belong.  It is a hard thing to say, but it is true.  You may have lost your job because of economical circumstances.  That does not mean you are a failure.  You are a failure when you lost with your job your courage to continue, the courage to pick yourself up, and get to it again.
 
The first thing you have to do is to find out what you want.  Then set your eyes on the goal.  Then fight for it.  There must be an objective.  When you find that objective, set your compass and sail for that star.
 
There are people among you who could win thousands for Christ, but you won’t because you don’t ask God what He wants you to do, or because, although you know what He wants you to do, you are like Jonah and don’t do it.