ACTION
While on vacation this summer I read Armand Hammer’s autobiography, entitled, Hammer. It was a powerfully fascinating story and certainly an insight into the entrepreneurial mind of our century. Here’s what he has to say about his focus in life: Mine has been a life of hectic action and endeavor, rather than of quiet contemplation. I have always felt that the highest human expression comes in our creative endeavors, those which draw upon all of our powers of imagination, intelligence and understanding; and throughout my life I have tried to bring all my energy and all my wit to every working day. Jimmy Stewart expressed the same attitude, but less piously, in the film Shenandoah: “If we don’t try, we don’t do. And if we don’t do . . . what are we on this earth for?” Hammer, page 13.
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