Did you know who in 1923 was: 

  1.President of the largest steel company? 
  2.President of the largest gas company? 
  3.President of the New York Stock Exchange? 
  4.Greatest wheat speculator? 
  5.President of the Bank of International Settlement? 
  6.Great Bear of Wall Street? 

These men should have been considered some of the world's
most successful men. At least they found the secret of making
money. Now more than 55 years later, do you know what has
become of these men? 

  1.The President of the largest steel company, Charles Schwab,
    died a pauper. 
  2.The President of the largest gas company, Edward Hopson, is insane. 
  3.The President of the N.Y.S.E., Richard Whitney, was released
    from prison to die at home. 
  4.The greatest wheat speculator, Arthur Cooger, died abroad, penniless. 
  5.The President of the Bank of International Settlement shot himself. 
  6.The Great Bear of Wall Street, Cosabee Rivermore, died of suicide. 

The same year, 1923, the winner of the most important golf championship,
Gene Sarazan, won the U.S. Open and PGA Tournaments. Today he is still
playing golf and is solvent.

Conclusion: Stop worrying about business and start playing golf 

I called a company and asked to speak to Bob. The person who
answered said, "Bob is on vacation. Would you like to hold?"

Then there was the psychology professor, a Yankee's Yankee
and a feminist's feminist, who tells the following story
about herself to illustrate that doctorates don't necessarily
make you smart.
She was driving to a workshop in Atlanta from her home in Ohio.
It was about 10 am, and she'd been driving the entire preceding
day and night herself, and she was consequently not in the best
of tempers as she searched for a motel in which to crash.
A Georgia state policeman pulled her over, got out of his cruiser,
swaggered up to her driver's window, bent down, and drawled,
"Lookie here, darlin',"--uh oh, everybody duck--"Lookie here, darlin',
nobody blows through Georgia that fast."
Said the feminist Yankee overtired psychology professor: "Sherman did."

She says he was not satisfied merely to give her a speeding ticket;
he made her follow him fifty miles out of her way to Nowheresburg, GA,
and wait at the police station until three in the afternoon for a
circuit judge to arrive so that he could explain to her why it wasn't
the best idea in the world to be impolite to policemen, who were after
all interested only in creating the safest possible environment for
everybody including her, etc. etc. The lecture went on for about two
hours, she says, after which she was released to drive the fifty miles
back to her route and resume her search for someplace to crash.