ONE of the problems of banks is the thousands of savings accounts which are started and then forgotten. A man deposits a small amount, tells himself he will start saving and deposit a stated amount each week, but forgets all about it. His good resolutions fade away, and there is that small sum, a nuisance and an expense to the bank.
Business is crowded with men who start many activities, who are chock full of ideas, who know what needs to be done, and who start many jobs. These men have one great fault. They do not finish the jobs they start. At the first sign of difficulty, they put the job aside, fall back into some routine activity, and let the resolution die.
In any office, in any factory, mill, or plant the most valuable man is the fellow who sticks until the job is finished.
How often we hear some such remarks as this: "There's an idea I have had for a long time, but I never got around to doing anything about it!" Every important invention turns up dozens of men who had the same idea as the successful inventor. But—the only man who profited from the invention happens to be the man who actually "did something about it."
New ideas, future plans, preliminary sketches, rough drafts—all these enterprises in business are excellent. But the man who keeps a business going is the one who starts less and finishes more.
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