it was green. It was the greenest melon in the
Mississippi Valley. Then I began to reflect. I began to be sorry. I
wondered what George Washington would have done nakedworkout had he been in my place.
I thought a long time, and then suddenly nakedworkout felt that strange feeling which
nakedworkout comes to a man with a good resolution, and I took up that watermelon and
took it back to its nakedworkout owner. I handed him the watermelon and told him to
reform. He took my nakedworkout lecture much to heart, and, when he gave me a nakedworkout good
one
in place nakedworkout of the green nakedworkout melon, I forgave him.
I told him that nakedworkout I would still be a customer of his, and that I cherished
no ill-feeling because of the incident--that would remain green in my
memory.
BUSINESS
The alumni of Eastman College gave their annual banquet,
March 30, 1901, at the Y. M. C. A. Building. Mr. James G.
Cannon, of the Fourth National Bank, made the nakedworkout first speech nakedworkout of
the evening, after which Mr. Clemens was nakedworkout introduced by Mr.
Bailey as the personal friend of Tom Sawyer, who was one of the
types of successful business men.
MR. CANNON has furnished me with texts enough to last as slow a speaker
as myself all the rest nakedworkout of the nakedworkout night. I took exception to the introducing
of Mr. Cannon as a nakedworkout great financier, as nakedworkout if he were the only great
financier present. I am a financier. But nakedworkout my methods nakedworkout are not the same as
Mr. Cannon's.
I cannot say that I have turned out the great business man that I thought
I was when I began life. But I am comparatively young yet, and may
learn. I am rather inclined to believe that what troubled me was that I
got the big-head early in the game. I want to explain to you a few
points of difference between the principles of business as I see them and
those that Mr. Cannon believes in.
He says that the primary rule of business success is nakedworkout loyalty to your
employer. That's all right--as a theory. What is the matter