THE MAN WHO WINS
The man who wins is an average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blest with any particular luck — Just steady and earnest and full of pluck. When asked a question he does not ‘ guess,’ He knows, and answers No ’ or ‘Yes’; When set a task that the rest can’t do, He buckles down till he’s put it through. , Three things he’s learnedthat the man who tries, Finds favor in his employer’s eyes; That it pays to know more than one thing well; That it doesn't pay all he knows to tell. So he works and waits, till one fine day, There’s a better job with bigger pay; And the men who shirked whenever they could, Are bossed by the man whose work made good. For the man who wins is the man who works. Who neither labor nor trouble shirks; Who uses his hands, his head, his eyes — The man who wins is the man who tries.
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New Zealand Tablet, 19 October 1911, Page 2109
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163THE MAN WHO WINS New Zealand Tablet, 19 October 1911, Page 2109
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