A Truthful Business Motto

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 11, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 31.

A Truthful Business Motto

ONE of the most striking and truthful of business mottoes is the following:

“The world reserves all its big prizes for but one thing, and that is initiative. Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. Next to doing the thing without being told, is to do it when you are told once.”

Heaven, too, reserves its prizes for initiative. It is the unprofitable servant that does nothing more than his duty. If business men would take the same initiative in heavenly things that they do in earthly things, their profits would be more than all the gold and silver that they can ever hope to accumulate. God holds out the great reward to the men with the initiative to carry or send the Gospel to those who do not know it.