He
instinctively reasoned it out that an unpleasant task is never
accomplished by stepping aside from it, but that, unerringly, it will
return later to be met and done.
Obstacles, to Edward Bok, soon became merely difficulties to be
overcome, and he trusted to his instinct to show him the best way to
overcome them. He soon learned that the hardest kind of work was back
of every success; that nothing in the world of business just happened,
but that everything was brought about, and only in one way--by a
willingness of spirit and a determination to carry through. He soon
exploded for himself the misleading and comfortable theory of luck; the
only lucky people, he found, were those who worked hard. To them, luck
came in the shape of what they had earned. There were exceptions here
and there, as there are to every rule; but the majority of these, he
soon found, were more in the seeming than in the reality. Generally
speaking--and of course to this rule there are likewise exceptions, or
as the Frenchman said, "All generalizations are false, including this
one"--a man got in this world about what he worked for.
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