BILLY’S KEYS TO SUCCESS.
“Dig the foundation deep, young man;
Plant firm the outer wall.
Build it well what ere you do;
Build it straight and strong and true;
Build it clean and high and broad,
Build it for the eye of God.”
Have some definite aim in life. Don’t drift ’round and ’round like a log in a whirlpool.
Do the best you can and you will win; God could not ask more than that.
Not only aim high, but muster up enough power to pierce the opposition and to ring the bell.
Don’t try to build character with a whisky bottle, a pack of cards, a libertine life and cigarets. Put the Bible and Jesus Christ in your life instead.
Be careful what you read. Don’t read bad, worthless books.
Don’t assassinate every noble desire that comes to you.
Get a good introduction of yourself to yourself and find out how little you really know.
Cut out the cigarets, boys, or they’ll cut you out. Just take that from your Uncle Fuller.
Have the grit of Sampson in your system so that you won’t tremble when the lions roar.
Don’t have your veins filled with ice water. Get some pepper, ginger and tabasco sauce into them.
Be a live wire. Be like the man with the itch; make everybody scratch when they come near you.
Remember, you’re not measured by your size, but by what you are.
If your pockets are empty, fill your heart with resolutions and get into the game. Don’t sit on the bleachers and growl.
You can’t determine success by the rattle of the cash register.
The limbs of the tree of knowledge hang so low that anybody with ambition can reach up and pluck the fruit.
Cities are whirlpools that whirl you into the jaws of hell.