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The Exceptional Employee (1913)

Book Facts... The Exceptional Employee

Author:

Orison Swett Marden

Publisher:

Thomas Y. Crowell Company

Year Published:

1913

Number of Pages:

202

Number of Chapters:

Twenty

Sub- Title:

None

Read on and learn more about this great classic:


Selected Quotes From: The Exceptional Employee

"Take a self-inventory – what faults are crippling you? Argumentativeness; the criticizing, belittling habit; a hair-trigger temper; perculiarities; selfishness; moodiness; indifference; fear of losing your job? Identify your faults, then begin to remedy them."

"The most valuable acquisition to a business which an employer can obtain is an exceptional young man or woman. There is no other bargain so fruitful."

"The exceptional employee is the one who never says, ‘I was not paid to do that’; ‘I don’t get salary enough to work after hours or to take so many pains.’ He never leaves things half done, but does everything to a complete finish."

- Orison Swett Marden



The Exceptional Employee
Chapter Titles Include:

1. The Exceptional Employee
2. Self-Discovery
3. Conquering An Uncongenial Environment
4. The Power Of Enthusiasm
5. The Man Who Knows How
6. Self-Confidence Gets The Job
7. Why A Good Appearance Wins
8. Getting The Position That Calls Out Your Best
9. Health As Business Capital
10. Thanks That Keep You Back
11. Push Yourself Ahead
12. Put Your Best Into Everything
13. In Cheating Your Employer You Cheat Yourself
14. The Salary Not In Your Pay Envelope
15. Keep Your Working Standards Up
16. Gray Hairs Seeking A Job
17. All Work And No Play A Bad Policy
18. Keep Sweet
19. Be Dead In Earnest
20. Make Your Work Your Masterpiece

Excerpt From the Self-Help Classic... The Exceptional Employee

"A FIRE, OR A DISASTER at sea, often develops heroism out of the most unpromising material. Peole who were never known to do anything worthy before in their lives suddenly develop marvelous heroism. They rush into burning building, without the slightest fear, to save those who are perfect strangers to them, risking their own lives and often losing them. So young men and young women who have never exhibited any special ability, when made dependent by some great emergency or thrown into responsible positions by death, suddenly develop marvelous executive abilty.

Probably the majority of people in the failure army today are there because they have never discovered themselves. This was either for the reason that they were in an environment which did not awaken their dormant energies, or because they did not happen to come in contact with sufficient friction to arouse the sparks in their nature.

A man in trouble once wrote a friend, ‘I am in a hole, and if you don’t help me out, I am stuck.’ His friend replied, ‘Sorry I can’t help you, old fellow, but if you are in a hole you can’t get out of, I am coming to see the hole. It must be a wonder.’

The man got out.

The most important thing, at the very outset of his career, is for a man to get motivated, to find himself – to get into an atmosphere which will awaken his dormant ambitions and call out his mental and physical reserve power.

The successful person ought to know at the very outset of his career just what fund he can draw upon. If a man is starting out in business for himself he should take a complete inventory of all his possible assets and all his available resources.

Only a small percentage of those in the great army of the employed ever discover more than a fraction of their ability, hence the multitude of perpetual clerks, who might have been proprietors if they could only have found all of their ability assets. Tens of thousands, if not millions, plod along in mediocrity who have resources, if they could only detect them, to lift them into superior positions.

The most fortunate moment in any human life is that moment when one catches a glimpse of his real ability; discovers himself in his latent powers. The most fortunate experience in any life is that which has aroused his ambition. The most valuable thing which ever comes into a life is that experience, that book, that sermon, that person, that incident, that emergency, that accident – that something which touched the springs of his inner nature and flung oopen the powers of his great within, revealing its enormous hidden resources."

- Orison Swett Marden


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