p. 68 | Do Everything Well

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 8, 1883

Do Everything Well.

It is the result of practical every-day experience that steady attention to matters of detail lies at the root of human progress, and that diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck. Accuracy also is of much importance, and an invariable mark of good training in a man—accuracy in observation, accuracy in speech, accuracy in the transaction of affairs. What is done in business must be well done, for it is better to accomplish perfectly a small amount of work than to half do ten times as much. Yet, in business affairs, it is the manner in which even small matters are transacted that often decide men for or against you. With virtue, capability, and good conduct in other respects, the person who is habitually inaccurate cannot be trusted; his work has to be gone over again, and he thus causes endless annoyance, vexation and trouble.