INITIATIVE 



By ELBERT HUBBARD 



V^^^^^JHE world bestows its big prizes, both 

 ~*v in money and honors, for but one 

 I thing. Q And that is Initiative. Q What 



^L J is Initiative ? Q I '11 tell you: It is 

 ^^^^ doing the right thing without being 

 told. Q, But next to doing the thing without being 

 told is to do it when you are told once. That is to 

 say, carry the Message to Garcia! Q There are 

 those who never do a thing until they are told twice : 

 such get no honors and small pay. Q Next, there 

 are those who do the right thing only when neces- 

 sity kicks them from behind, and these get indif- 

 ference instead of honors, & a pittance for pay. This 

 kind spends most of its time polishing a bench with 

 a hard-luck story. Q Then, still lower down in the 

 scale than this, we have the fellow who s will not 

 do the right thing even when some one goes along 

 to show him how and stays to see that he does it: 

 he is always out of a job, and receives the contempt 

 ,he deserves, unless he has a rich Pa, in which case 

 Destiny patiently awaits around the corner with 

 a stuffed club. Q To which class do you belong? 



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