FROM GENIUS TO BUSINESS
Henry Longfellow could take a sheet of paper worth one-tenth of a cent, •write a poem on it and make it worth 5000 dollars. That is genius. Henry Ford can take a similar sheet of paper, write a few words on it and make it worth one million dollars. That’s capital. A workman can take three cents’ worth of steel, make it into watch, springs, and collect hundreds of dollars. That’s skill. A merchant can take an article worth 50 cents, advertise it, and sell it for one dollar. That’s business. —‘ ‘ btraighf Matter. ’ ’
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Patea Mail, Volume XLVIII, 17 February 1926, Page 4
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